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If I want to make a Facebook desktop messenger, how should I go about it?

  • Facebook used to provide a messenger, but now they have closed down the service. Well  and good, but if I want make my own messenger, how should I go about it? Which platform, language, what libraries should I use I'm a complete novice, who is willing to spend time though..  I have a decent command over c++.. although, I made a web-crawler recently in python.. But can't say I'm so confident in python.. nevertheless I can learn.. Also, I prefer using Ubuntu, so it would be much appreciated, if your answers is based on the consideration that I would like to use it in Ubuntu. Feel free to go as deep into explaining the simplest stuff as you can

  • Answer:

    Why don't you start off by studying the code in their website. That would tell you how the messenger works. Then you could recreate the process using the networking features in c.

Rishav Kundu at Quora Visit the source

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First try to develop "Simple Chat Client".then you may go for FB desk mess.for this you need to have knowledge on Java messaging Service and Java Socket programming..I hope it helps..

Santhosh Rajan

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