QUIC vs TCP
Discussions center on QUIC as a TCP replacement, its advantages like reduced latency and built-in encryption, integration with HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, and challenges in adoption and performance.
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QUIC is replacement for TCP, not HTTP.
I'm guessing QUIC integrates better with HTTP/2?
What happened to QUIC? Didn’t google want to have a replacement for tcp?
isn't QUIC the new TCP in this case?
ELI5: Why is QUIC better over TCP?
Is QUIC specific to HTTP, or can it be used as as transport mechanism for arbitrary protocols?
I thought IETF QUIC was higher-level agnostic from the beginning, has that changed?
QUIC is like TCP 2.0. So it won't help games
It's the kind of thing that QUIC supports out of the box.
What problem do QUIC and http/3 solve?