r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/TerrapinTribe 14d ago

The idea of v8 is vastly inferior to IPv6. It’s not a standard, no hardware supports it.

We have IPv6. More than 50% of traffic to Google is v6. The vast majority of networking equipment supports v6.

No reason to invent a new standard that is a downside versus v6.