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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 2394 days ago
Also, you can implement an IRC client and/or server in about an hour in any decently high-level programming language.
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Are you saying literally or figuratively. You mean it is possible to implement a working python3 client in one hour ? I would love to see someone do a live stream .
Yeah. Well, maybe. It might be a slight exaggeration but IRC is ludicrously simple. It's just sending text strings back and forth on a TCP socket. You can literally use telnet as an IRC client.