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I don't know if there is, but it feels like the email protocol problem.
Like, while the protocol sucks in many, many ways, it would take something revolutionary to replace it because it's everywhere.
It's been around so long that everything talks the protocol, the binaries that handle it are mature and stable.
Then you have to ask: what would you replace it with? It does the job it's designed to do very well. There's nothing the matter with the protocol, and it's still fit-for-purpose.
That doesn't mean there aren't problems - spam, bad actors, and so on, but ultimately that's not the fault of the protocol (though, maybe, for email, people have been arguing about protocol-level ways of dealing with spam for years).
I don't have an answer, but I feel like there should be one, but I doubt the is.
(have heard a similar argument about Python – there’s no killer app and it’s not the best, but it’s good enough and just keeps going)
Rust once it's matured is my guess
Edit: this short comment wasn't thought out so the downvotes are reasonable, gonna leave this up so I can improve
We're replacing protocols with Rust now?
I imagine they were trying to reply to CEREMENT about Python.