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Poking a 10-year-old chat protocol reveals surprising resilience
A developer revived lhttp, a decade-old chat protocol built on WebSocket and NATS, and got it running with minimal effort despite its Go 1.6 dependencies. The protocol uses an HTTP-like syntax over persistent connections for real-time messaging. The experiment shows how simple, well-designed protocols can outlast their era.
Meridian48 take
The story is a fun nostalgia trip, but the real takeaway is how robust old Go code can be—and how overengineered modern chat protocols often are.
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