Comment by mlhpdx

Agreed. Building a custom protocol seems “hard” to many folks who are doing it without any fear on top of HTTP. The wild shenanigans I’ve seen with headers, query params and JSON make me laugh a little. Everything as text is _actually_ hard.

A part of the problem with UDP is the lack of good platforms and tooling. Examples as well. I’m trying to help with that, but it’s an uphill battle for sure.