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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by fiatjaf on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:24PM (#11301149)
It's easier to write your own protocol, that's the reason.

Laziness.

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by zanny on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:19AM (#11302545)
I wrote a Matrix client library in Qt about three weeks ago, and it was really braindead simple.

JSON in, JSON out. HTTP codes tell you what response you got. TLS on an https connection for secure communications. WebRTC for voice calls, and you just query the API for the signaling server to use.

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by pekk on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @11:08PM (#11302342)
Have you implemented the IRC protocol? It's horrible.
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