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i think it's more about performance. Wechat ha HUGE amount of users in China, an low level socket connection would get better performance than a standard HTTP request
Re:Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @10:16PM (#13275422)
an AFNetworking/OkHttp alternative written in C++ and use socket instead of HTTP