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		BinaryIgor 65 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UDP isn't unreliable, it's a convertible (2024) 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...

ekr____ 65 days ago [–]

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

mlhpdx 65 days ago | [–]

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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