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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by mlhpdx on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:02PM (#45765923)
Fair. But there are legions of developers blindly doing REST over HTTP and creating bad experiences. I know it's fine for many, many cases -- but not all.
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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by wat10000 on Friday October 31, 2025 @11:28AM (#45773145)
For sure. But I don't think it's because they think UDP is shit because it's unreliable. It's because most ecosystems make REST over HTTP much, much easier than using UDP.
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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by mlhpdx on Friday October 31, 2025 @09:32PM (#45778540)
Could not agree more, and that is a problem I’m happy to be working on with my startup.
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