[noisy_boy]

> Anyway, reading this reminds me of the old chestnut from networking about choosing UDP over TCP for its low-latency and simplicity and then eventually adding nearly all the reliability facilities of TCP to the app (automatic retry

Sometimes you can build a successful business out of doing so: https://aeron.io/

[ezekiel68]

For sure -- but these are the 'exceptions that prove the rule'. Someone else mentioned HTTP3 and QUIC. For all of these, there are thousands of projects (including multiplayer games and even enterprises) that didn't quite get it right and suffered for it.

Or, at least, so says the lore.