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Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

Stack

Objective-C CocoaPods pip

GitHub topics

#automation #hammerspoon #irc #lua #macos #mjolnir

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-02
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 694 open

16,177

stars

Forks: 720
Commits: 6,938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

thelounge/thelounge

💬 ‎ Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client

Stack

TypeScript Express Vite Vue npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#chat #irc #irc-client #ircv3 #javascript #nodejs

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-03-04
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 314 open

6,334

stars

Forks: 784
Commits: 8,010 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

twisted/twisted

Event-driven networking engine written in Python.

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#async #async-python #dns #event-driven #http #imap

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-07-09
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2,833 open

5,992

stars

Forks: 1,225
Commits: 32,004 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

squidowl/halloy

IRC application written in Rust

Stack

Rust Bun Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#iced #irc #rust

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-14
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 228 open

4,504

stars

Forks: 218
Commits: 5,436 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

weechat/weechat

The extensible chat client.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #chat #client #extensible #irc #javascript

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-09-27
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 439 open

3,391

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 14,098 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ergochat/ergo

A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go.

AI dev

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#daemon #irc #irc-daemon #irc-server #ircd #ircv3

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-04-07
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 203 open

3,331

stars

Forks: 243
Commits: 5,582 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

irssi/irssi

The client of the future

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#irc #irc-client #irc-protocol #irssi

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-09-03
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 235 open

3,138

stars

Forks: 396
Commits: 6,931 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

autobrr/autobrr

Modern, easy to use download automation for torrents and usenet.

AI dev

Stack

Go React React Native Svelte Tailwind CSS Go modules pnpm

GitHub topics

#announce #autobrr #autodl-irssi #automation #bittorrent #deluge

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-08-11
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 15 open

3,035

stars

Forks: 219
Commits: 1,604 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

wabarc/wayback

An archiving tool with an IM-style interface that prioritizes privacy and accessibility, integrated with various archival services including Internet Archive, archive.today, Ghostarchive, IPFS, Telegraph, and file systems.

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#archive #har #heroku #internet-archive #ipfs #irc

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-06-13
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 63 open

2,240

stars

Forks: 88
Commits: 539 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

znc/znc

Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #irc #irc-bouncer #znc

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-08-24
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 386 open

2,125

stars

Forks: 405
Commits: 6,042 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

inspircd/inspircd

A high-performance Internet Relay Chat (IRCv3) server for UNIX-like and Windows systems

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #inspircd #internet-relay-chat #irc #irc-protocol #irc-server

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-01-23
History: 8 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 112 open

1,348

stars

Forks: 286
Commits: 17,651 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kiwiirc/kiwiirc

🥝 Next generation of the Kiwi IRC web client

Stack

Vue Vue Yarn

GitHub topics

#chat #client #irc #irc-client #messenger #web

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-24
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 194 open

989

stars

Forks: 232
Commits: 4,911 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

glowing-bear/glowing-bear

A web client for WeeChat

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript Express Tauri Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#irc #websocket #weechat

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-16
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 159 open

980

stars

Forks: 187
Commits: 2,152 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

quassel/quassel

Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#bouncer #irc #irc-client #quassel

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-05-17
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

792

stars

Forks: 227
Commits: 4,765 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

eggheads/eggdrop

The Eggdrop IRC Bot

Stack

C pytest uv

GitHub topics

#bot #c #eggdrop #hacktoberfest #irc #python

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-06-23
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 241 open

583

stars

Forks: 102
Commits: 3,845 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ngircd/ngircd

Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd #c #chat #daemon #internet-relay-chat #irc

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-12-11
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 32 open

581

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 3,687 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mcpcpc/kirc

Lightweight terminal IRC client

Stack

GitHub topics

#client #irc #portable

Updated: 2026-01-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-06
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

544

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 276 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

unrealircd/unrealircd

Official UnrealIRCd repository. Downloads are available from our site

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #irc #irc-server #ircd #ircv3 #sasl

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-02-28
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

522

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 10,770 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

adium/adium

Adium is an open source and free instant messaging application for macOS that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more.

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#adium #bonjour #chat #irc #jabber #macintosh-computers

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-02
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 32 open

394

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 322 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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robustirc/robustirc

RobustIRC - an IRC network without netsplits, implemented in Go using the Raft consensus algorithm

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#go #golang #irc #raft #raft-consensus-algorithm

Updated: 2026-05-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-12-29
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 6 open

195

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 746 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vascocosta/zircon

A simple IRC library written in Zig.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#irc #irc-protocol #network #tls #zig #zig-lib

Updated: 2026-05-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-09-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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