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