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Stopped reading at chat server. Some FAANGs use IRC when all fails.

There is no reason a startup should be building a chat server in 2023. Best reason given in the article was 'integrations'. Use an IRC bot to post messages to the channel, don't waste time writing yet another insecure chat client and server.

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Isn't the chat server they talk about for somethin in-app ? Like if your game offers player-to-player chat, or something similar ? I don't think they are talking about tools for software engineers themselves.

But then the length of the article wouldn’t seem substantial and you wouldn’t bother reading it at all because you’d assume it wasn’t worth your time and the author wouldn’t get to tell you about whatever random app they’re building and shilling for. Key insight: the article isn’t about the tech, the article is about them trying to drive traffic to their app or whatever.

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