"I primarily write software for me. If others benefit too, then great."
That's my personal motto regarding public facing software development. It separates my personal happiness from all the naysayers who approach me and would bully me and result in burnout given half a chance. As long as you like and use Pidgin and enjoy developing for it, then who cares what anyone else says?
Should XMPP have been the underlying protocol for all things instant messaging so the user can freely choose their preferred chat client? Perhaps. But that's not how it has played out in the industry at large. And dumping private corporate communications into the cloud which is data mined by whomever can pay for it is always a privacy/security concern (e.g. I've been sent sensitive passwords over Discord/Slack/Teams before). But few people seem to actually care about that because laziness/convenience always seems to defeat both security and privacy.
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"I primarily write software for me. If others benefit too, then great."
That's my personal motto regarding public facing software development. It separates my personal happiness from all the naysayers who approach me and would bully me and result in burnout given half a chance. As long as you like and use Pidgin and enjoy developing for it, then who cares what anyone else says?
Should XMPP have been the underlying protocol for all things instant messaging so the user can freely choose their preferred chat client? Perhaps. But that's not how it has played out in the industry at large. And dumping private corporate communications into the cloud which is data mined by whomever can pay for it is always a privacy/security concern (e.g. I've been sent sensitive passwords over Discord/Slack/Teams before). But few people seem to actually care about that because laziness/convenience always seems to defeat both security and privacy.