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		eloy on May 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iOS Supporting IPv6-Only Networks Out of curiosity, why would anyone use Unix or BSD sockets on iOS if Apple provides way better APIs?

Negative1 on May 5, 2016 | [–]

Think game engines or legacy C++ projects there were ported to the platform and already have their own network implementation.

mosburger on May 5, 2016 | [–]

Maybe familiarity? Porting existing UNIX code to iOS (seems like that'd be pretty rare)?

eloy on May 5, 2016 | [–]

Hmm, good point. I guess that most of the apps that use BSD/Unix sockets are libraries then.

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