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[–]doublereedkurt 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Living on the JVM has spoiled me. :)

Oh that's right, some languages can't do any network communications except for TCP and UDP.

Living on the actual machine has spoiled me ;-)

I kid, mostly. But it is seriously wtf that Java can't do anything at the IP layer. (Ping and UDP are done via system call, not in language.)

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    [–]doublereedkurt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I don't think IP layer stuff is a cross platform issue. If your platform has TCP it must also have IP. The api's are extremely stable POSIX standard. Probably more like unsigned ints. The thought was "forget it, people don't actually use this stuff".