Top 10 Ircv3 Open-Source Projects

The Lounge

61 5,392 8.3 TypeScript

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

Project mention: Simplicity of IRC | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-13

IRC as a protocol is indeed incredibly simple and easy to get started with. Years ago did discover this when I was able to make [this atrocity](https://github.com/creesch/discordIRCd) bridging IRC and discord where for IRC I effectively did a simple server implementation.
There is a caveat, though. Like many older protocols (ftp) there is a lot that was not initially written down or left up to clients and server implementations. This, does lead to a lot of edge cases you need to be aware of once you want to actually support a wider user group.
Also, as this is apparently is still a discussion. IRC is not simple from a modern user UX perception. Registration can be complex and confusing, though hidden a bit through clients. Managing channels with various flags is a whole other thing. Then there is also the fact that these days people are no longer used to the fact that they can't see messages from periods where they were not connected. Of course, the latter can be easily handled by a BNC or fancy clients like https://thelounge.chat . But, that is only easy for technically inclined folks.

Oragono

20 2,153 8.3 Go

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

Project mention: IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-29

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
InspIRCd

5 1,125 9.3 C++

A modular C++ IRC server (ircd).

Project mention: Looking for: Chat service that isn't web server based | /r/selfhosted | 2023-04-30

Looks fine for me. Note - you can download DEB file from https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/releases for Ubuntu and install it .. no point going over compilation stuff or via docker https://hub.docker.com/r/inspircd/inspircd-docker/

ircv3-specifications

2 771 4.5

IRCv3 specifications | Roadmap: https://git.io/IRCv3-Roadmap | Code of conduct: http://ircv3.net/conduct.html
unrealircd

4 401 9.3 C

Official UnrealIRCd repository. Downloads are available from our site
colloquy

3 220 0.0 Objective-C

Colloquy is an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client for macOS and iOS! Latest Mac builds: https://github.com/colloquy/colloquy/releases
solanum

2 213 7.1 C

An IRCd for unified networks
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
matrix2051

1 59 6.5 Elixir

A Matrix gateway for IRC: connect to Matrix from your favorite IRC client.
irctest

1 37 8.4 Python

Semi-automated conformance checking for IRC implementations (RFC1459/RFC2812, the "modern spec" by ircdocs, and IRCv3)
JarChat

1 1 3.2 Java

IRC Client written in Java

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).