>Engineering is not a democracy. The technical merits of an argument are more important than how popular it is with arbitrary commenters on GitHub. The (frankl

>Engineering is not a democracy. The technical merits of an argument are more important than how popular it is with arbitrary commenters on GitHub. The (frankly shallow) technical merit is that it gives us one less status code, in a problem space where if you really need that specific last status code so much that it's worth undoing a small piece of nearly 20 year old Internet culture to get it, the solution isn't to take that status code it's to switch the way you represent status codes entirely. I would make some comparison to scrounging for IPv4 blocks instead of switching to IPv6, but the growth rate of computers on the Internet and HTTP status codes aren't really comparable.