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Re:Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and soft... by kuschku on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @04:43AM (#12303214)
> Discord also has a better documented API and libraries in a lot of languages. Overall, Discord (despite using an electron app...) is simply a better chatting product.

Better documented APIs and libraries than IRC? That’s not just quite a stretch, it’s literally a lie.

There’s IRC libs in every language you can imagine, usually dozens per language, with many perfectly documented ones, for every possible purpose.

And about all of them work for Twitch chat.

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Re:Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and soft... by makomk on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:46AM (#12303436)
IRC libraries are often gnarly and quirky at the best of times, and Twitch isn't all that close to standard IRC and never has been (plus, they've changed their proprietary extensions in non-backwards-compatible ways from time to time).
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