This is simply false, as proven by the numerous clients that have tried and failed to build on top of IRC. Every single thread about this kind of stuff has an

This is simply false, as proven by the numerous clients that have tried and failed to build on top of IRC. Every single thread about this kind of stuff has an IRC devote crawl out of the woodwork. I get it: I grew up on IRC as well. You gotta accept what people (and organizations, like Mozilla, who clearly outlined their reasoning publicly before doing this) need.