Re:The State of Mobile XMPP in 2016
by emias on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @05:23AM
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> as long as Matrix is at the forefront of usable federated open secure extensible private messaging
You say this as if the truth of this statement was obvious to everyone.
> free software developer hours are precious and wasting them are two different implementations of the same thing (much like Tox vs Ring for secret messaging) wastes a ton of effort that could be better spent making one of the two excellent rather than having two working solutions nobody uses.
That's precisely the reason I work on ejabberd/XMPP rather than just throwing everything away and starting from scratch.
You say this as if the truth of this statement was obvious to everyone.
> free software developer hours are precious and wasting them are two different implementations of the same thing (much like Tox vs Ring for secret messaging) wastes a ton of effort that could be better spent making one of the two excellent rather than having two working solutions nobody uses.
That's precisely the reason I work on ejabberd/XMPP rather than just throwing everything away and starting from scratch.