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I think that QUIC and HTTP/3 are great, but I worry that HTTP/1.1 will eventually be abandoned. I think it's important to be able to implement basic HTTP functionality with a few lines of code.

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> I worry that HTTP/1.1 will eventually be abandoned.

HTTP/2? Sure HTTP/1.1? Not a chance. It's too widespread and too valuable, and the floor is too low. Unless Google starts a singular effort against it and manages to pull in the other big cos while avoiding the ire of the liberal states, which seems unlikely.

HTTP 1 is magical. It's so simple to generate or parse. It'll never be abandoned just because of that reason.

Yes, headers in text plus body in any content type is incredibly simple and flexible. It’s hard to imagine redesigning HTTP/1 to be any more straightforward.

I sincerely hope you're right. I certainly intend to always support it on my services. But it's all too easy for me to imagine a world where Chrome/Blink drops support.

Chrome doesn't actually support RSS anyway. There are extensions for it, but it doesn't actually support it.

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