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I would love to see open source developers and companies supported because it's not really tenable to replace all the open source we rely on - we probably need 20 million lines of open source to serve a HTML page. If we were actually enabling and empowering open source developers, and especially the people learning, it would be awesome. Enabling people like Torvalds and Stallman to grow into their role of writing stuff that benefits billions of people.

But we can do Hunger Games too. There's no wrong answers.



I dunno, I could do it in 200 of good code in C.


Including kernel, network driver, etc?


I guess not no, I was thinking of userland.


You can make a simple HTTP/1.1 server in 200 lines of good C. Not one that runs HTTP/3.0 including QUIC and TLS.


99% of websites do not need anything beyond HTTP/1.1.


HTTP 3 isn't even in production yet.


Define production and define HTTP3. The beauty of open source is that you can be already serving pages using QUIC and TLS1.3 while the standard is being finalised.


A finalised standard was what I had in mind. QUIC, much like SPDY was, isn't more than a Google protocol for only Chrome right now.




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