Maybe you should go back and read scoopdewoop's comment again. Half of their point was that slack and discord are not simple text only chat clients.

They don't really do anything more complicated than a reasonably fancy IRC client did in 1995, yet I bet you they're a lot slower to do it.

Yeah, it's totally fair and correct to say that slack doesn't do anything more complicated than an IRC client did in 1995.

Try using the global search feature on Slack and tell me how that already existed in IRC circa 1995.

> Try using the global search feature on Slack and tell me how that already existed in IRC circa 1995.

Isn't that particular feature mostly implemented server side?

On the other hand, yes, I agree that modern messengers has a lot of features that my IRC clients missed (voice comes to mind). Also they are easier for mainstream users to use and administer, and, compared to old IRC, safer in a number of ways (although I'd add that we are seeing a number of new threats now).

Ok, perhaps that was an over simplification - they are "complicated chat clients", but that still doesn't excuse the fact that massive industrial programs start instantly nowadays if they are native - think Unreal Engine, 3ds Studio Max, Blender, Sublime Text, the list goes on

What universe do you live in where unreal engine launches in less than 30 seconds?

A useful heuristic: anyone who's argument is of the form "x is cancer" can safely be ignored.