&gt; On the bright side, at least IP, TCP, etc. weren&#x27;t designed in the same way...<p>And yet almost anyone can implement an HTTP server with their own parser, that works for every client out there in just a few weeks, but not TCP stack or DNS server.<p>It is incorrect to assume, that parsing text is hard. It never was and never will be. It&#x27;s the other way around.