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On 2/13/2018 4:35 PM, 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 isn't a chat program. It's a web browser running a chat program
written in JavaScript. Which does punctuate your point: "hello world" as
a JavaScript application packaged with a web browser to run it.

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Rich P.



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