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 Iโ€™ve used protocols based on them
37%
other
2.6%
Poll ended at .

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 โ€œyes, UDPโ€ to the above poll)

@b0rk WLED is an open source controller for WS2812 and alike addressable LEDs (strips), running on ESP8266 and ESP32.
It can use UDP to sync multiple devices for bigger lightshows

https://kno.wled.ge/features/settings/ (scroll down to 'Sync settings')

Settings - WLED Project