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>I kind of miss long polling. It was so stupidly simple compared to newer tech, and that's coming from someone who thinks WebRTC is the best thing since sliced bread.

I still use it all the time. There are plenty of applications where the request overhead is reasonable in exchange for keeping everything within the context of an existing HTTP API.



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