[up-n-atom]

Is it really a question about processing performance though? I’ve always assumed it was about bandwidth and latency… Communication protocols don’t need to be human-readable because tooling has always provided that at a higher level. A binary protocol just as a text protocol like S-expression or the divine simplicity of IRC is just as digestible when documented. And there are better facilities to have extensibility regardless. I think we can all agree it’s as much a failure as a success if we’re still talking the same points 25 years later.

[ezst]

just posting this here: https://www.isode.com/whitepaper/operating-xmpp-over-hf-radi...

[up-n-atom]

monetization makes for a conceiving argument so I will leave this here as well https://www.wwt.com/case-study/tactical-chat-solution-navy/

[zamalek]

XML compresses really well.

[dafelst]

Because it contains a ton of redundancy