WeeChat
WeeChat is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.
What is WeeChat?
WeeChat is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.
Features
- Modular chat client: WeeChat has a lightweight core and optional plugins. All plugins (including IRC) are independent and can be unloaded.
- Multi-platform: WeeChat runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, GNU/Hurd, Haiku, macOS and Windows (Bash/Ubuntu and Cygwin).
- Multi-protocols: WeeChat is designed to support multiple protocols by plugins, like IRC.
- Standards-compliant: the IRC plugin is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, and 2813.
- Small, fast, and very light: the core is and should stay as light and fast as possible.
- Customizable and extensible: there are a lot of options to customize WeeChat, and it is extensible with C plugins and scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme, JavaScript and PHP).
- Fully documented: there is comprehensive documentation, which is translated into several languages.
- Developed from scratch: WeeChat was built from scratch and is not based on any other client.
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WeeChat information
- Developed byWeeChat.org
- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- Alternatives52 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 2,631 Stars
- 311 Forks
- 500 Open Issues
- Updated
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