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by ComputerGuru 2054 days ago
> Really illustrates the dumbassery of sticking a (relatively) fast-moving application-layer protocol into the kernel.

Really? There are lots of problems with doing HTTP in the kernel, but “fast moving” is a new one. HTTP was stuck in permafrost from 1995 to 2015. If it weren’t for Google, neither of HTTP 2 or 3 would have ever happened.