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I think the question is not so much could http have used UDP, but rather is the browser the right place to build a complex piece of software. The fact that you can doesn't mean that you should. I am a bit concerned that the browser is becoming the only cross platform API and we are forced to build complex software on top of a scripting language that was only designed to fire up porn advertisement pop ups.



Ignoring the (in)validity of your characterization of JS, web assembly will remove this reliance on JS




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