Implement The Matrix Protocol

The matrix protocol has emerged as the 3rd iteration of and future direction of the IRC protocol. This protocol was developed independently of the freenode-based IRCv3 working group, but encompasses virtually all of the design goals for what that group was trying to accomplish -- and then some. It already has a plethora of implementations, and the size of its ecosystem and userbase is rivaling and beginning to pass that of IRC entirely. It's beyond clear at this point that this is the way the future is going to look-- in fact that statement is already old news. It's here; it's the present reality; and it's currently being stretched to its limit of scale -- and this is where we come in. This protocol is so easy to implement in the higher level languages and that is where the ecosystem has tended. This protocol now needs a C/C++ implementation.

I'm sure the preceding statements will be immaculately controversial, perhaps religiously so. Bring it on, if you disagree.