> Oh, wait, is Elon porting the venerable xchat to Rust? :)
If this hasn't been done already, I have a new weekend project!
For those of you who don't know, the project was archived in 2024 but there was at least one modern fork of XChat in the form of HexChat: https://hexchat.github.io/
Honestly we're a little short on good IRC clients, so it's not that stupid.
I have resorted to rolling my own version of irccloud. It became embarrassing how much I spent over the years for such a simple service. Also learning then irc protocol in its bizarre entirety was pretty fun.