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Re:Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin by nolok on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:26AM (#10901185)
> work better and is easier to implement

Not implying it isn't true but ... Says who ?

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Re:Facebook Messenger protocol in Pidgin by MattJ100 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:36AM (#10901243)
Having implemented MQTT on both client and server sides, I have no idea why people keep saying it's easy to implement.

Not my post, but an overview of some of its issues: http://vasters.com/clemensv/2014/06/02/MQTT+An+Implementers+...

tl;dr: Protocol design and implementation isn't easy.

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