[hardwaresofton]

Is it wise to get hooked on websockets given that they're disappearing in HTTP2? I assume lattice is not tied to websocket as the implementation, and can switch to doing things over webrtc data (which would be even better for games since webrtc data can use UDP)

[Matthias247]

Websockets won't disappear!

It's just the case that you can't upgrade from a HTTP connect/request to a websocket connection, since at that point the connection is already in HTTP/2 mode and both HTTP/2 and websockets need complete control over the TCP stream.

But: You can still make a HTTP/1 request to the server and upgrade to websockets. Both servers and clients will speak HTTP/1 in parallel to HTTP/2 for a loooong time - most likely forever.

[jasonl99]

Short answer, I don't know. I don't know that they'll disappear, they are just so efficient.

That said, lattice is completely event-driven. The #on_event and #emit_event methods act as entry and exit points. As long as I can have string come and go between the server and client, HTTP2 would be fine.

This seems like a pretty good article covering it

https://www.infoq.com/articles/websocket-and-http2-coexist