QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet (acm.org)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484991 (327 comments)
QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet (acm.org)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484991 (327 comments)
This is an interesting hot take.
You’re also factually incorrect in a number of ways such as claiming that HTTP/2 was a Google project (it’s not and some of the poorly thought out ideas like push didn’t come from Google).
The fact of the matter is that other attempts at “next gen” protocols had taken place. Google is the only one that won out. Part of it is because they were one of the few properties that controlled enough web traffic to try something. Another is that they explicitly learned from mistakes that the academics had been doing and taken market effects into account (ie not requiring SW updates of middleware boxes). I’d say all things considered Internet connectivity is better that QUIC got standardized. Papers like this simply point to current inefficiencies of today’s implementation - those can be fixed. These aren’t intractable design flaws of the protocol itself.
But you seem to really hate Google as a starting point so that seems to color your opinion of anything they produce rather than engaging with the technical material in good faith.
It's just that their interests in certain aspects don't align with ours.