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IRC is easy. Its a basic text protocol that requires a socket and some minimal parsing to work with. Whenever I use XMPP, its never that simple. The protocol is

by Zev 16y ago

IRC is easy. Its a basic text protocol that requires a socket and some minimal parsing to work with. Whenever I use XMPP, its never that simple. The protocol is too verbose for its own good imho.

jackolas 16y ago
Xmpp allows you to be a bit more secure and fine tune the usage. If your client or library doesn't actually make this simpler, something has failed.
- Zev 16y ago
  Of course! All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection! More seriously, are you saying that SSL/TLS and SASL are both insecure?
- arosien 16y ago
  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle.