KDE Brooklyn Chat Bridge Sees Its First Release

[felipez]

I don't think the problem today is only corporate lock-in. IM became mainstream at the same time as the PC and internet. Almost everyone had an email, but not all used IRC. IM like ICQ were easy to install, connect and use (way easier than IRC for the non geek), and now it's the same with Whatsaap, Viber etc.

Today is even harder to get people to use your app. It needs desktop and mobile clients, privacy, video and voice calls, file sharing etc etc etc... Some platforms let you edit documents with peers. So it's not just IM anymore.

I'm afraid this KDE Brooklyn will suffer the same fate as pidgin and others, unless they can do some dark magic and support all the different protocols.

[starshipeleven]

And I thought most people used watsapp and FB messenger.

[andrei_me]

Java in KDE? That's really odd.

Probably Riva doesn't know/isn't comfortable with Rust

[DavideRiva]

Hi, I'm the developer of Brooklyn. First of all, thank you for the article.
Sorry for my bad English but I'm not native.

And it's going to fail fast because hardly anyone uses open IM protocols these days.

Brooklyn is born to solve this problem inside KDE (especially on W2L).
It's not going to fail because it is doing the job is needed for.

I gave up on multi chat clients years ago (pidgin, adium etc) because, well, chat had moved on... I might be a strange case, but I just use Discord these days - it *just* works

It's not a multi-chat client. Please read the article more carefully

I wouldn't say "fail", just not get that much use. But I agree that the demand for new chat clients isn't exactly huge.

Again, it's not a "chat client"

These days Slack, Gitter and Microsoft Teams are more interesting.

We don't use none of them inside KDE but Brooklyn is modular, so feel free to implement a Slack/Gitter/Microsoft Teams bot.
I'll appreciate it.

Probably Riva doesn't know/isn't comfortable with Rust

Java is the best choice for this project.
We should (I've to do that too) stop focusing on languages wars and more on choosing the right language for the right project.
Everytime someone creates a project in X there is always someone else arguing that X is not a good language.
Give it a try and tell me what's wrong

[lowflyer]

Java in KDE? That's really odd.

Java is dead.

[Karmux]

This project is at least 15 years late.

[bug77]

Java is dead.

Java is not the browser plugin. Jeez...

[AsuMagic]

Java is not the browser plugin. Jeez...

Doesn't make it less mediocre

[bug77]

Doesn't make it less mediocre

I'm getting paid a lot to program in Java, so I guess the joke's on you.
Also: http://githut.info/

[markc]

I refuse to use any JAVA apps so I guess I will just have to not use this one too.