Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by raimue » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

#2

Post by yegle » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 5:55 PM UTC

It's pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, https://weechat.org/ support: Python/Perl/Ruby/lua/tcl/guile/Javascript.

UPDATE: I stand corrected.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

#3

Post by systems » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 6:00 PM UTC

yegle wrote: post #2

It's pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, https://weechat.org/ support: Python/Perl/Ruby/lua/tcl/guile/Javascript. UPDATE: I stand corrected.

it is just a chat client why does it need to support all those languages

i understand that Perl5, isn't really exciting anymore

but .. i think it's ok

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by shanemhansen » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 6:03 PM UTC

yegle wrote: post #2

It's pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, https://weechat.org/ support: Python/Perl/Ruby/lua/tcl/guile/Javascript. UPDATE: I stand corrected.

According to the website python,tcl, and javascript can be used https://irssi.org/modules/

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by yegle » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 6:09 PM UTC

shanemhansen wrote: post #4

yegle wrote: post #2

It's pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, https://weechat.org/ support: Python/Perl/Ruby/lua/tcl/guile/Javascript. UPDATE: I stand corrected.

According to the website python,tcl, and javascript can be used https://irssi.org/modules/

Thank you for the information, guess I didn't look thoroughly back when I was looking for a terminal based IRC client.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by yegle » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 6:11 PM UTC

systems wrote: post #3

yegle wrote: post #2

It's pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, https://weechat.org/ support: Python/Perl/Ruby/lua/tcl/guile/Javascript. UPDATE: I stand corrected.

it is just a chat client why does it need to support all those languages i understand that Perl5, isn't really exciting anymore but .. i think it's ok

IRC client is useless without a certain degree of extensibility. Having a wide range of scripting language support is important IMO.

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 6:11 PM UTC

systems wrote: post #3

yegle wrote: post #2

It's pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, https://weechat.org/ support: Python/Perl/Ruby/lua/tcl/guile/Javascript. UPDATE: I stand corrected.

it is just a chat client why does it need to support all those languages i understand that Perl5, isn't really exciting anymore but .. i think it's ok

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Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by vesinisa » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 6:19 PM UTC

Heh, great! And only 17 years in development!

First commit: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/770ae45

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by DoodleBuggy » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 6:24 PM UTC

vesinisa wrote: post #8

Heh, great! And only 17 years in development! First commit: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/770ae45

Right on schedule!

Time to finally switch from ircII?? /s

Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released

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Post by jimktrains2 » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 6:25 PM UTC

yegle wrote: post #6

systems wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it is just a chat client why does it need to support all those languages i understand that Perl5, isn't really exciting anymore but .. i think it's ok

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.