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A very basic IRC client can be made literally with pretty much ten lines, netcat, head, echo, cat and a named pipe. It's not bollocks. IRC is super easy to deve
by headhasthoughts 4y ago
A very basic IRC client can be made literally with pretty much ten lines, netcat, head, echo, cat and a named pipe. It's not bollocks. IRC is super easy to develop for.
Even doing basic stuff with Matrix, on the other hand, while still better than most, requires a lot more effort. The docs are decent, though.
- Arathorn 4y agoHere's me literally writing a working Matrix client by typing ~7 lines of bash into a HN comment box: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20948530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20948530