This is why I like the idea of plan 9 and file servers which provide a standard system wide interface to a thing such as a chat protocol. There is/was (cat and

This is why I like the idea of plan 9 and file servers which provide a standard system wide interface to a thing such as a chat protocol. There is/was (cat and mouse) a discord file server which allows you to use any text handling interface such as a shell window or text editor as a chat client. There is also an IRC file server which does the same and acts as a bouncer giving you a persistent connection. So you can have a single acme window open writing code, chatting on irc and discord while checking email and composing an email. It's all text so treat is as such. Wild stuff.