I've spent over 20 years on IRC and im still on every day. Two years ago, I felt the community could use more client options, so I created Halloy. It has since become my primary spare-time project, and I love seeing people enjoy IRC.

And we're all thankful you did, for various reasons ;-)

On IRC since 1997 - even still in the first channel I joined!

Writing an IRC client is really a fun and rewarding exercise.

I also more or less started my career as a software engineer by maintaining a mildly popular Linux one, at the time.

Some things I learned ...

- A lot about shipping to real users and their pain points, since the devs are naturally accessible by IRC and you get to meet directly

- A whole lot about what makes a successful technology

- Equally much about tech warts, as IRC suffers from a fair number misguided early decisions and many years without functioning governance

- How incredibly rewarding it is to work on products that users directly "live their lives" in and that can help facilitate anything they do - it taught me to look out for jobs that have similar substrate-like qualities

Good luck with your project, I'm glad to see the cycle of renewal continue.

Thanks!

Thank you! I’ll reach out.

This is Iced, not Tauri. Yeah, it's been a productive month. Once you get hooked it's hard to stop.

It's made with the Midjourney niji engine and finished up in Photoshop.

It's beautiful but from decades of experience in app development, I moved away about 10 years ago from using images as icons to insisting that all icons be vector files.

But hiring an Adobe Illustrator expert to professionally recreate the icon as a layered SVG wouldn't cost much. Well done!

Thanks for the response! Very impressive results from Midjourney.

Turned out gorgeous. Do you remember the original prompt?

Yes, but promise not to laugh: "application icon, a side view of a fat seagull". Fat seagull :D

We use https://crates.io/crates/irc under the hood which is compliant with RFC 2812, IRCv3.1, IRCv3.2.

And thanks for noticing the XKCD!

Iced is awesome. Slightly biased being a contributed though :) I would recommend https://libera.chat/. There are a ton of great channels: ##rust, #linux, #networking, #security to mention a few.

I am very proud of the code base, but there's many places to optimize. I welcome contributions if you want to help out!

Thank you! I don't plan to support other games than World of Warcraft for now. But the code base is split into a core and gui part so it should be easy to fork and modify to your needs!

I like it a lot. But by saying that, don't get confused by the overall state Rust GUI applications are in: immature[0]. I have a background in native iOS and macOS development and this is another game. However I have not regretted choosing Rust for this project. I wanted to natively support both Windows, Linux and macOS and at the same time learn the language. This was my first proper Rust application and I've learned so much.

The limitation Iced has have actually done something good for the simplicity of Ajour. People are liking this simple look because the application is just a tool. There is no need for fancy animations.

[0] - https://www.areweguiyet.com/