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by M95D
829 days ago
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Each protocol serves a purpose - it's ORIGINAL purpose. To extend it like this means to degrade it's original usefulness, make it complicated to create new implementations and it won't even compete with a new protocol specifically designed for the new purpose. All this leads to "extinguish" phase. IRC was implemented in probably hundreds of programs (many/most from scratch, not by importing the same library!). There's even an implementation for Arduino! It's a successful protocol as it is now. Could you run it on Arduino if it had WebRTC in it? |
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I realize the IRC protocol is easy to implement (though the protocol itself has flaws that make it difficult e.g. to identify which message is a response to your query, IRC3 addresses this) and I too have done it in the past, but I see zero reasons to embrace it today.