Yeah that's my point: that would be like saying cURL supports XMPP because there are HTTP/web socket bridges, but that's not the point. I guess cURL could conn

Yeah that's my point: that would be like saying cURL supports XMPP because there are HTTP/web socket bridges, but that's not the point. I guess cURL could connect, with, send a message and leave, or list rooms, but that's already a hack on the original use case of IRC. And it's only a small fraction of what IRC is used for, namely people interacting with each other. "Supporting IRC" would mean at least that.