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ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea

https://github.com/babycommando/zuse
41•babycommando•5h ago

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GCUMstlyHarmls•4h ago
I know its built on pretty large abstractions, but I think its impressive to get an entire IRC TUI client out of ~1k lines with comments & formatting.
babycommando•3h ago
Thanks!! I'm going to improve the readability to enable contributions. Hope you liked ::)
DigiEggz•3h ago
Excited to check this out! Nice work!
babycommando•1h ago
Thank you! ::)
sho_hn•3h ago
Something tells me you might enjoy this:

https://www.printables.com/model/1251667-mechanical-nand-uni...

babycommando•1h ago
Absolutely lovely!!
alberth•2h ago
Unsolicited feedback, can the IRC screenshots have more contrast (and also not show such a vibrant distracting background).

The combination of those two make it difficult to even see what you’ve made.

alrs•1h ago
"Modern" is the most passive-aggressive adjective in the history of HN.
babycommando•1h ago
long live hexchat!!
snvzz•1h ago
long live amIRC[0]!

0. https://www.amirc.org/

anonym29•1h ago
To be clear, you still can't click, drag, and highlight text for basic operations like quickly and easily copying some text in any Bubbletea/Lipgloss interfaces, right?

Unless that has changed, that dynamic places this behind most other CLI-based IRC clients, including some that are decades old.

babycommando•1h ago
Thats neat actually, will take a look into how viable it can be. Bubbletea (and lipgloss) are like CSS for the terminal, you do the styling, calculate margins, manage responsive things wich is quite cool already. I believe what you mean is totally doable, just that I'm not much of a mouse user myself - it slows me down. Thanks for the feedback.
anonym29•1h ago
For what it's worth, I rarely do use the mouse in my terminal, but on those few occasions when I do want to, Bubbletea/Lipgloss applications have had a history of being pretty infuriating for me as a user.

P.S. Keep up the great work! The world needs more IRC.

wredcoll•14m ago
How is this separate from what a terminal normally provides?
yoz-y•11m ago
Wait, how can you not copy paste from a terminal application?

Or is this about to have break-line aware copy in panes (such as in tmux)?

boredemployee•1h ago
tangential question: are there still any IRC servers and (small) channels with cool people? I recently lost a virtual friend I had talked to for over 20 years, all thanks to some random mIRC channel back in the day. he ran the server with a bunch of ppl for so long. so sad. i really miss the times when we could have fun with just plain text.
babycommando•1h ago
ZUSE was initially made to go along a CLI I've built for a synthwave radio NightrideFM (https://nightride.fm/), that has a hacker subchannel named Rekt Network (https://rekt.fm/). Both communities are still very active there!

irc.rekt.network:6697 channels: #rekt,#nightride TLS true

Also checkout the Nightride cli at https://github.com/babycommando/nightride-cli

lmm•51m ago
No. Text-first chat is great, but the people who stuck to IRC this long are all sysadmin-luddites or otherwise deeply weird.
iJohnDoe•29m ago
Impressive. Will give it a try.
jcastro•20m ago
Would love to see this for matrix!

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