On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 04:35:54PM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > The binary for a modern-day IRC-type program (Slack) is over 80MB. Sure, the > original IRC didn't have pictures. But 80MB!? I have an internet radio > program (Tunein Radio) that has an install of 65MB.
Slack is a particular outlier, because it's not really an IRC program. No, it's an IRC program written in Javascript as a web application... and bundled with a complete web browser to run it in. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
