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1) I misread the name of something that merely looked like irssi, or 2) there was a new project names irssi that unfortunately used a name of a much older project.
There was a several year period of my life where the vast majority of my online communication took place inside irssi. And that time was not particularly recent!
Congrats to the team, awesome to see it still going.
I feel like I just discovered the Coelacanth isn't actually extinct. I initially assumed either: 1) I misread the name of something that merely looked like irssi, or 2) there was a new project names irssi that unfortunately used a name of a much older project. There was a several year period of my life where the vast majority of my online communication took place inside irssi. And that time was not particularly recen…
I've moved to weechat these days, but I'm glad to see the revived project making progress. Irsii was my daily communications hero for many years.
I'm glad to see another project dropping the meaningless major version number(s). If you don't have a criteria for incrementing the major number, just drop it. This seems to finally be catching on, hopefully we'll see the billion open source projects with meaningless "0." continue to fall off.
Now we got phones with internet though, so it's no longer that hard to look up stuff when your computer is half down :)
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IRC client is useless without a certain degree of extensibility. Having a wide range of scripting language support is important IMO.
But you can extend it. I know that recently vim has added python support, but people used vim script to do amazing things, and look at the OS we know as emacs.
Sorry if this makes you feel old, but that's a literal decade ago.