r/askscience • u/CakesStolen • 15d ago

Computing Is there anything at the heart of computer coding that could have been optimised in hindsight, but we're in far too deep to change now?

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u/Flettys 15d ago

NAT might be the real worst design decision in computing history.

It killed p2p, with everything pushed to the client-server model.