what will happen with CIRC with the end of chrome apps

[arpedro]

Really love CIRC but I'm a bit worried about what will happen when Chromebooks stop running Chrome apps. Will we have an extension to replace it?

[shibumi]

An extension would be great.

[flackr]

Unfortunately, I do not think the API exists for CIRC to run as a chrome extension. The chrome apps API had the ability to create plain TCP connections which are essential for connecting directly to IRC.

The best that could be done is I think running a local server application that allows a website or extension to proxy connections through it. To that end, it looks like https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge is already a good implementation of this.

[shibumi]

And what about this one here? https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/irc_client_for_browser/999357435640

[flackr]

And what about this one here? https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/irc_client_for_browser/999357435640

This looks like a webserver (similar to the local server model I mentioned above) but hosted on heroku's infrastructure. You could likely run thelounge on heroku's infrastructure as well. There would likely be a non-trivial cost for me to run hosted infrastructure for all CIRC users, i.e. it would be a similar offering to https://www.irccloud.com/

[shibumi]

Ah okay. I wasn't aware of that. I don't feel comfortable using a server as man-in-the-middle for my IRC communication.