The plain-English version
A reliable, ordered byte-stream transport between endpoints while the connection is operating.
Why it matters
Applications still need to define how their messages are framed and interpreted.
Let’s make it click
A length prefix tells a receiver how many bytes belong to the next application message.
Vibe Bro’s heads-up
One send call does not guarantee one matching receive call; a message may arrive in several reads or share a read with another message.
The docs behind it
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Editorial review · October 28, 2026
Supported: TCP provides an ordered byte stream, not application message boundaries; Python documents partial sends and receives.