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One more thing to dislike about XMPP/Jabber is that it's XML based. Writing products on top of it is unnecessarily verbose and complicated (also due to the bad
by onestone 12y ago
One more thing to dislike about XMPP/Jabber is that it's XML based. Writing products on top of it is unnecessarily verbose and complicated (also due to the bad choices you mentioned). A modern messaging protocol should use JSON.
- userbinator 12y agoOr something even simpler, like the line-based structure of IRC and MSNP; but you're right, it doesn't need to be XML to be extensible.