XChat

XChat is a free, graphical IRC client for Linux, Unix derivatives and Windows. For Mac OS X X-Chat Aqua exists with its own user interface and the engine from XChat.

XChat has an IRC client AmIRC modeled for the Amiga GTK2 interface, plugin support, and customization options ( program libraries and scripts ) using C / C , Lisp, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, xcdscript (JavaScript).

The author Peter Zelezny sells the version of Windows since version 2.4.0 because of the expense of the Windows port only as shareware, but simultaneously released the source code under the GPL. However, it contains a relation to the shareware version reduced or limited functionality and is updated frequently. Nevertheless, from various unofficial free versions for Windows are created again and again. For Mac OS X is the external derivative X-Chat Aqua is available, but that will not be developed further since 2012.

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