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> You consider something you use mature. From Wikipedia: IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 A major, hugely successful product, that is i
by zmix 7y ago
> You consider something you use mature.
From Wikipedia:
IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988
A major, hugely successful product, that is in the market for 32 years, and has seen many implementations, both on client as well as on server side, must be "mature". No?!
- viraptor 7y agoI didn't say it's not. I just commented on the way the tech was compared. OP said that "as someone who gets it", they "consider" it mature.
- ghostpepper 7y agoIf you're not saying it's not mature, why criticize the OP for saying it's mature? Hardly seems relevant to your point.
- viraptor 7y agoI criticised the "something I know/get is good, something I haven't used seems inaccessible" comparison only.
- Shish2k 7y ago> A major, hugely successful product, that is in the market for 32 years, and has seen many implementations, both on client as well as on server side, must be "mature". No?! No. HTTP/HTML are mature; IRC is just old :P The IRC ecosystem is as if we’d reached HTTP/0.9 + HTML/1.0, and everybody collectively agreed to just stay there forever for some reason. “Mature” to me implies that a product has spent many years iterating on a design to reach, at the very least, a local maxima - ideally getting past that and evolving to keep up with the rest of the industry. IRC on the other hand, seems to have had a couple of years of work at the start, and then remained set in stone for 30 years...
- Polylactic_acid 7y agoAt this point IRC is so mature its senile