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12 days ago | about 2 years ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | zlib License |
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Ask HN: Why isn't JSON-RPC more widely adopted?
So funny you say this. I think it's the insight of many developers including my own. I hacked together a framework that did this before the existence of GRPC. Now I'm trying to formalise it as a protocol. https://github.com/micro/network/blob/main/PROTOCOL.md
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More Instant Messaging Interoperability
Alright, let me throw my hat into this ring with a totally unfinished idea. I started working on a design for something called the Micro Communication Protocol (MUCP) [1]. It's a header based protocol that's transport agnostic and focuses on service-to-service communication. An early prototype existed in Micro [2] but I'm primarily focused on redesigning the protocol before re-implementing it. Micro was geared towards API first services but I'm looking to expand the scope and try to build a UI layer on top. Most of the protocols focused very much on communication between people but I think if you focus on service-to-service communication more broadly it opens up the avenue to all sorts of multiplayer collaboration.
- [1] https://github.com/micro/network/blob/main/PROTOCOL.md
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Real World Micro Services
Yea like you're part of this club that has exclusive access to something, you contribute to it, deliver value, see it grow and then it's gone when you leave. It exists within a silo and for the better part of a decade that's really irked me but I haven't quite figured out how to solve for that problem beyond doing it in a shared open source repo and a shared platform. I think I the issue is it's bigger than any one person and you have to find a way to sell thousands of people on the idea. My starting point was code and now I wonder could I have approached this differently? Is there another path in which this would actually succeed? I'm still trying to figure it out and it's driving me crazy. Next I'll be writing a protocol no joke https://github.com/micro/network
biboumi
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IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol
IRC is great! I access through the excellent biboumi gateway, which offers bouncer-like functionality and let me choose between various clients. There are open instances available for everyone to use, although I couldn't give a list of them since I self-host. I like that it's very lightweight, making it a reasonable permacomputing approach to group chats.
I wouldn't go as far as saying it's the only viable chat protocol, if you follow the link below you'll guess what I have in mind saying that. (it starts with an X and ends with two Ps)
https://biboumi.louiz.org/
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More Instant Messaging Interoperability
> and supports bridging to other types of networks which aren't matrix-based
https://sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/
Turn any XMPP client into that fancy multiprotocol chat app that every cool kid want.
> Signal, Telegram, Discord, Steam, Mattermost, Facebook, Skype
https://spectrum.im/
Spectrum is an open source instant messaging transport. It allows users to chat together even when they are using different IM networks.
https://github.com/louiz/biboumi
Biboumi is an XMPP gateway that connects to IRC servers and translates between the two protocols. It can be used to access IRC channels using any XMPP client as if these channels were XMPP MUCs.
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I'm using all of those daily to connect to all my other accounts, Slidge is the most modern one and is having lots of features ported to the modern XMPP extensions.
What are some alternatives?
services - Real World Micro Services
qxmpp - Cross-platform C++ XMPP client and server library
sydent - Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server
server
json-api - A specification for building JSON APIs
The Lounge - 💬 ‎ Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
Spectrum 2 - Spectrum 2 IM transports
micro - A Go service development platform
Quassel IRC - Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.