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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 The ability of UDP to broadcast to all computers on a local network is handy. As part of a GUI for an industrial robot, I wrote a simple UDP protocol to discover all robots on the local network. The GUI would use this information to allow connecting quickly to the robot without typing its IP address.