Networking
This section documents the server’s binary protocol building blocks used by the UDP networking pipeline.\ It defines the fixed-size packet header shared by all messages and explains the rules that guarantee cross-platform compatibility (Windows, Linux, macOS).
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Design Goals
- Fixed, compact metadata for every message
- Deterministic, big-endian (network order) encoding
- Cross-platform and compiler-agnostic representation
- Simple encode/decode without dynamic allocation