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UDP was never "needed". It's been used in real-time applications because there are latency benefits to datagram protocols. And browsers can indeed use UDP. Web
by mypalmike 7y ago
UDP was never "needed". It's been used in real-time applications because there are latency benefits to datagram protocols.
And browsers can indeed use UDP. WebRTC data channels are SCTP over DTLS, which is UDP based.