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by human20190310 2449 days ago
Moreover it might not just be developer time vs. latency that's being traded off.

Maintaining a stateful websocket connection on the server side isn't cost-free, and that connection would be idle nearly 100% of the time. The bandwidth consumed via Google's polling solution might well be cheaper than open socket file descriptors of a websockets solution.