heptal/kathy

OS X IRC client in Swift

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