> (And the number of times I've watched a dev attempt to implement some standard while steadfastly refusing to read the standard. Then I proceed to find bug aft

> (And the number of times I've watched a dev attempt to implement some standard while steadfastly refusing to read the standard. Then I proceed to find bug after bug, trivially … because I am reading the standard…) This is a large part of why I expect the binary protocols HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 to be more reliable and less buggy than the textual HTTP/1 once all the dust settles: you won’t get far without reading at least parts of the specs, and they’re harder to implement, so there will be fewer implementations, with a higher average quality.