WeeChat
Extensible terminal-based chat client
WeeChat is a fast, lightweight chat client that runs in the terminal and supports IRC and many other protocols through plugins. Its relay protocol allows remote clients to connect to a persistent session.
Key features
- Terminal interface
- Scriptable in many languages
- Relay protocol for remote clients
- Highly extensible
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- Active community (3.4k GitHub stars)
- Written in C
- Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM
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