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IRC is extremely idiosyncratic, though. XMPP is much more logical and consistent. Any decent language can deal with trees, although XML is sometimes a little an
by lucian1900 14y ago
IRC is extremely idiosyncratic, though. XMPP is much more logical and consistent. Any decent language can deal with trees, although XML is sometimes a little annoying.
The potential problem with XML is the overhead. I'm not sure that's been an issue so far, though.
- lmm 14y agoI've heard it argued that the main reason Wave died was all the XML overhead from being built on XMPP.
- lucian1900 14y agoI doubt that's it. More likely Wave died because they somehow neglected to actually release it. By the time they closed it down, very few people had gotten invites.
- lmm 14y agoMaybe they were stingy with the invites because they couldn't scale up the servers?