UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible

Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by BinaryIgor on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:01PM (#45763918)

Interesting perspective, agreed 100%; having UDP available in the browser would open up a plethora of interesting new use cases - games, video/audio calls without WebRTC overhead - and techniques to use. Ohh wait - we will soon have it! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebTranspor...

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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by ekr____ on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:21PM (#45764145)

Well, WebTransport is built on top of QUIC, and so the overhead is actually reasonably comparable to that for WebRTC.

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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by mlhpdx on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:59PM (#45765900)

But QUIC is another case of "one size fits all" reliability and ordering (etc.) that doesn't allow a great deal of flexibility.

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