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You are not alone. Java remains unfairly tethered to a reputation forged over 20 years ago. Human psychology reveals a reluctance to update our worldview: once a collective consens…

> The standardization process comes into play when you think you have found a good solution, which should be adopted by THE standard respectively the ecosystem. Na, the standardiza…

I am not sure if I would phrase it that way. (Seemingly) conflicting extensions are another consequence of the loosely coupling between standardization and implementations. In addi…

> Personal speculation but I blame the "everything is an extension" model - it was meant to reduce fragmentation and allow clients with different featuresets to interoperate I coul…

The kernel usually just needs to know which binary to execute as init, which is often provided as kernel command line argument by the bootloader.

> Even if the application is making 50 byte sends why aren't these getting coalesced once the socket's buffer is full? Because maybe the 50 bytes are latency sensitive and need to …

The problem does not seem to be that TCP_NODELAY is on, but that the packets are sent carry only 50 bytes of payload. If you send a large file, then I would expect that you invoke …

It should be possible to install meson via pip --user. Even though I prefer system-wide installations, I believe this weakens your argument for user defined functions in your situa…

QUIC does a lot more than "the one for TCP". While I also believe that modern TCP consists of more than just one RFC (which you already hinted at). I guess the art in protocol desi…

Smack uses an XML pull parser and non-blocking I/O. It does so by splitting the XMPP stream top-level elements first and only feeding complete elements to the pull parser.

I get your confusion. But keep in mind that it is not only about just picking the library that shows as first result of your Google search. My naive self thinks that a million doll…

> One of the harder things with XMPP is that it is a badly-formed document up until the connection is closed. You need a SAX-style/event-based parser to handle it. That is a common…

It appears that Gloox, a relative low-level XMPP-client C library, rolled much of its Unicode and XML parsing itself, which made such vulnerabilities more likely. There maybe good …

It is not an RFC, it is an I-D (Internet Draft).

Using XML is one of XMPP its biggest strengths. XML is well designed, good documented and has a rich set of supporting libraries. XML documents can be composed of other XML documen…

I wonder why people jump fast to conclusion that to "let XMPP die", when the protocol can also be iteratively improved. Presence is not required in XMPP, its an optional feature. E…

I wouldn't be sure that this is authentic, i.e. actually from John Nagle.

It still shows sign of ongoing development though: https://github.com/psi-im/psi/graphs/contributors?from=2016-...

1. Concurrency platforms finally help to utilize multiple cores of a system, as result we will see many-core architectures with plenty simple cores 2. The consequences of quantitat…

> Less standards, less use-cases - for example I don't think xmpp should take care of vcards, nickname and tons You mean you just want to use RFC 6120/6121? That's fine, just do it…

> I think it started to die when Google decided the XMPP spec was not good enough for them and deviated from it It was my impression that Google dropped XMPP support not because of…

Link to his stackoverflow answers sorted by votes: https://stackoverflow.com/users/254279/thomas-pornin?tab=ans...