&gt; <i>The protocol will be a simple sequence of messages, each message consisting of 32-bit size field in network byte order and the data. How hard it can be to implement such a simple specification? It turns out it can take months.</i><p>It could also take years, if not decades. It doesn&#x27;t mean it should. This is a good article but this sort of straw-man shenanigans only serves to hurt its credibility.