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If you account for resources which have been put into development of those features, it's pretty obvious XMPP is the more agile protocol. Five independent open
by zaik 3y ago
If you account for resources which have been put into development of those features, it's pretty obvious XMPP is the more agile protocol. Five independent open source developers take longer to develop some feature in their spare time than a corporation with tens of millions of venture capital funding, and sometimes they're even faster? Imagine what could be if people focused on XMPP instead of constantly re-inventing the wheel.
- troupo 3y ago> If you account for resources which have been put into development of those features, it's pretty obvious XMPP is the more agile protocol. 10 years is not agile. > Imagine what could be if people focused on XMPP instead of constantly re-inventing the wheel. We could try and imagine. As it stands, it's XMPP which is reinventing the wheel, continuously. The primary reason being: it was developed at a time when non-persistent internet connection, multi-device synchronisation, video calls, ubiquitous file sharing and other wonders of the modern world didn't exist, and retrofitting it was a multi-year struggle. Undoubtedly prolonged by the very same people who decried the modern world and claimed that XMPP was enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38497839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38497839