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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by matthewmacleod on Thursday March 08, 2018 @07:36AM (#16543957)
No. It's not hard to write a cross-platform app, but it _is_ more difficult and more expensive than writing an app using a cross-platform framework or web stack.

That's the tradeoff, and I wish companies would be more honest about it. But a company with as many engineers as Slack doesn't really have an excuse beyond "we want to spend less".

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by always_good on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:27AM (#16544876)
Also, I have a problem with the word "hard" in the context of software development.

Things are usually hard not because of some lofty technical goals, but because the sum of all the papercuts is hard. It's just developer hubris to look at the trade-offs someone makes and say (on HN of course) "meh, these other trade-offs aren't even that hard, c'mon!"

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