If you are not working on Browser frontend, you will also enjoy the API stability.

Here's an older verison of the same guide by the same author, more than 2 decades ago: https://web.archive.org/web/19970812031954/http://www.ecst.c...

Amazing how little has changed. I strongly suspect anyone will remember the UI framework du jour 10 years from now but Berkeley sockets have staying power. Despite occasional efforts to replace (OpenTransport anyone?).