[historyloop]

> It’s great that we’ve went full circle. But make no mistake that this only means one thing: that servers are cheaper than ever. We can now afford to entertain previously extravagant ideas.

We've not come full circle. This is just one blog saying "how about long-polling". While also ignoring that since then we've gained web sockets, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, each of which make long-polling pointless in three different ways.

[MrStonedOne]

>While also ignoring that since then we've gained web sockets, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, each of which make long-polling pointless in three different ways.

None of those have strong support across language frameworks for using them as a client from a server context. Especially http/3.

[historyloop]

What language exactly you use that can't do web sockets, which is a thin layer over plain TCP sockets?

[MrStonedOne]

dream maker (which can do http, but not websockets or tcp sockets), php: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7160899/websocket-client... , tcl.