Comment by Dylan16807

It's hard to believe there are people that think letters in an IP have a meaningful impact.

"edgy"? Come on.

And if they used decimal I bet the complaints they didn't use hex would be just as loud and just as certain, since an IP address in dotted decimal is 50% longer than in hex.

On top of that, hex would make IPv4 a lot easier to use because of how subnets get optimized. Instead of constantly rounding to weird multiples of 8 or 16 or 32 you'd only have to deal with one hex digit at a time. And in most deployments you could skip the address math entirely by sizing your subnets 4 bits at a time: /16, /20, /24, /28.