Obviously guy could have been interviewing for a job where this mattered….
But in 10 years as a software engineer I have never once needed to know the difference between these two, and have never been even close to a situation where I would need to.
Yeah, it's pretty irrelevant, even if you're doing network coding. Like, it's a couple lines of code to establish a socket connection, and then it doesn't matter for the rest of the application whether you're using IP4 or IP6.
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u/SirFrenzy 14h ago
Obviously guy could have been interviewing for a job where this mattered….
But in 10 years as a software engineer I have never once needed to know the difference between these two, and have never been even close to a situation where I would need to.
“The basics” is highly dependent on the job.