Kathy

What is this?

This is an IRC client written in Swift.

Why?

All the ones out there have one annoyance or another, and for fun.

Features?

• TLS
• IPv6
• Auto-login
• Auto-parsing/clickifying URLs
• Auto-embedding images
• User list
• Channel list
• Channel topics
• Up/down arrows for history
• Tab-completion of nicks
• Private message notifications
• Not using interface builder

How do I build?

Install carthage and run carthage update to pull in the CocoaAsyncSocket dependency. Then build and run. Hopefully it will work.

What next?

• Timestamps
• Message consistency
• Polish notifications
• Multiple simultaneous servers
• Make preferences better
• Streamline IRC command parsing/construction
• Themes?
• File transfers?
• Other protocols? (slack, irccloud)

Pics?

References

• RFC 1459: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459
• RFC 2812: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812
• IRC numeric responses: https://www.alien.net.au/irc/irc2numerics.html
• IRC user modes: https://www.alien.net.au/irc/usermodes.html