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Julia Evans Jun 19, 2024

poll: have you ever designed a protocol that uses TCP or UDP directly? (vs using protocols that are based on TCP/UDP like DNS, HTTP, SSH, etc)

(you can pick more than one)

yes, TCP

36.1%

yes, UDP

24.3%

no, but I’ve used protocols based on them

37%

other

2.6%

Poll ended at Jun 20, 2024 at 6:35pm.

Julia Evans Jun 19, 2024

I'm so curious about what the 30% of you who are designing custom UDP-based protocols are doing, I would love to hear more!

(please only reply if you responded “yes, UDP” to the above poll)

@b0rk Google home and and sonos stuff! (Not me, but prob the most common example of udp in a household nowadays)
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/12256492?hl=en

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