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> It’s a bold claim I know. But I struggle to think of a single reason why you would use TCP over QUIC going forward. I know that I'm talking about apples vs o
by HumblyTossed 3y ago
> It’s a bold claim I know. But I struggle to think of a single reason why you would use TCP over QUIC going forward.
I know that I'm talking about apples vs oranges, but how long have we been waiting for IPv6 to take over from IPv4? I don't see QUIC taking over from TCP any time soon.
- themerone 3y agoCorporate firewalls are going to allow QUIC sometime between never and the heat death of the universe.
- kixelated 3y agoQUIC is a major functionality improvement, while IPv6 is a capacity improvement. You can do some extremely cool things with QUIC that definitely deserves a post of its own.
- JimDabell 3y ago> I don't see QUIC taking over from TCP any time soon. HTTP/3 uses QUIC, so there’s already a substantial amount of production traffic going over it. https://blog.cloudflare.com/http3-usage-one-year-on/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/http3-usage-one-year-on/
- cryptonector 3y agoSwitching over all uses of TCP to QUIC will go even slower than the IPv6 migration. TCP works for most things and is trivial to use so it will continue to get use. But unlike IPv6 there's few barriers to adoption of QUIC where it really pays, so I expect that QUIC will be adopted by a lot of applications pretty quickly.