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A Slack clone in 5 lines of bash

It was all worth it for this:

> Their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. 
> – Douglas Adams

This is the rule for software.

Oh, don't stop there, of course.

Mattermost has half a million lines of code????!!! woah. Just the server.

And I'm feeling like it's getting close to about right for the 75% or so mark of finish (since likely there will be more deduplication) at 17637 lines right now.

If I can manage it, the GUI will be another 5k lines of code and a grand total around 25k should see it just right. Mind you, it's a p2p VPN system that will need a lightning and therefore bitcoin server running to do its on chain and channel business.

IDK even how a human can manage to cope with a single code base over 100k for just a single server. It's gotta take a committee to manage surely.