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Where's the barrier to entry?

HTTP/2 is more complex to implement from scratch (but still quite doable, even as an individual), but it has built-in support in every language & framework worth its salt now, so you don't need to do that.

If you're using an existing implementation, that's usually just as easy to do as HTTP/1.1, because they have almost exactly the same semantics (that's an explicit goal from the spec), and so most implementations have almost exactly the same API.

In practice, it's a syntax & connection management change on the wire that's mostly invisible as a developer building on top of it, plus a set of optional extra features (like Server Push) that you can use if you want or ignore if you don't.

Can't speak for QUIC/HTTP3, since I haven't touched them yet, but I'd be a surprised if that's a hugely different story.



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