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by lucian1900 4910 days ago
IRC is extremely idiosyncratic, though. XMPP is much more logical and consistent. Any decent language can deal with trees, although XML is sometimes a little annoying.

The potential problem with XML is the overhead. I'm not sure that's been an issue so far, though.
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lmm 4910 days ago
I've heard it argued that the main reason Wave died was all the XML overhead from being built on XMPP.
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lucian1900 4910 days ago
I doubt that's it. More likely Wave died because they somehow neglected to actually release it. By the time they closed it down, very few people had gotten invites.
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lmm 4910 days ago
Maybe they were stingy with the invites because they couldn't scale up the servers?
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