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0 pointslucian190013y ago0 comments

IRC is extremely idiosyncratic, though. XMPP is much more logical and consistent. Any decent language can deal with trees, although XML is sometimes a little annoying.

The potential problem with XML is the overhead. I'm not sure that's been an issue so far, though.

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lmm13y ago

I've heard it argued that the main reason Wave died was all the XML overhead from being built on XMPP.

lucian1900OP13y ago

I doubt that's it. More likely Wave died because they somehow neglected to actually release it. By the time they closed it down, very few people had gotten invites.

lmm13y ago

Maybe they were stingy with the invites because they couldn't scale up the servers?

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0 pointslucian190013y ago0 comments

IRC is extremely idiosyncratic, though. XMPP is much more logical and consistent. Any decent language can deal with trees, although XML is sometimes a little annoying.

The potential problem with XML is the overhead. I'm not sure that's been an issue so far, though.

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lmm13y ago

I've heard it argued that the main reason Wave died was all the XML overhead from being built on XMPP.

lucian1900OP13y ago

I doubt that's it. More likely Wave died because they somehow neglected to actually release it. By the time they closed it down, very few people had gotten invites.

lmm13y ago

Maybe they were stingy with the invites because they couldn't scale up the servers?

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