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by bmitc 585 days ago
> WebSocket is fairly inefficient protocol

In what way?

> This is adding complexity without additional benefit

I'm not sure that's a given. For example, WebSockets actually implement a message protocol. You have gauarantees that you sent or received the whole message. That may not be the case for TCP/IP, which is a byte streaming protocol.