I feel like I've made a mistake mentioning IRC - that was just an example to say that a client that receives and sends messages over the network was a solved pr

I feel like I've made a mistake mentioning IRC - that was just an example to say that a client that receives and sends messages over the network was a solved problem. Rich interface doesn't mean HTML and CSS. Have you seen good iOS apps? Their interface is just as rich and yet it's pure Swift/Objective-C compiled down to native code.