[crest]

In effect this is still Ethernet over TCP, but other than that it's a cool idea. Now if only NATS would support SCTP...

[crocal]

Agree. I would really like to hear what is the upside / sales pitch of NATS compared to an Erlang server (that, BTW, supports SCTP out of the box).

[ihsw2]

NATS can saturate a network port with hundreds of thousands of messages/second with minimal impact on CPU, it scales linearly with cores, and it has minimal/zero effort fail-over. Whether across large geographic boundaries (ie: AWS cross-region) or in the same rack, NATS clustering is reliable and definitely speedy.

[bjflanne]

Well said; the other project involving NATS from the Rapidloop team (gRPC over NATS essentially) mentions some benefits as they see it which are what you've pointed out: https://github.com/rapidloop/nrpc

[crocal]

Thanks!

[gigatexal]

Developer creates alpha /pet project for fun and learning and HN commenters complain it doesn’t do enough... sheesh.

[weberc2]

I don't see any trace of complaint; did he edit his post?

[gigatexal]

No actually I think I was quick to judge. My critique is wrong.

[weberc2]

Eh, easy mistake. Text lacks a lot of nonverbal context.

[steeve]

What about quic?