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I don't know if I would call IRC a complex protocol. But, agreed that it isn't the right tool for this job. One of the many node.js-based chat servers that wer

by Zev 14y ago

I don't know if I would call IRC a complex protocol. But, agreed that it isn't the right tool for this job. One of the many node.js-based chat servers that were so popular to make a few months back might be a better choice.

saurik 14y ago
IRC isn't seem very complex until you actually try to implement it, and it is only when you go to use your client on a second IRC network that you start to realize the true depth of the problem. It is not, however, until you discover two IRC networks that have contradictory implementation decisions that you truly understand just how complex a protocol that was standardized many (many) years after it was implemented by numerous unrelated parties can get.