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Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client

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380 points culinary-robot | 1 comments | 15 Oct 25 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.255s | source

I started working on Halloy back in 2022, with the goal of giving something back to the community I’ve been a part of for the past two decades. I wanted to create a modern, multi-platform IRC client written in Rust.

Three years later, I’ve made new friends who have become core contributors, and there are now over 200 people idling in our #halloy channel on Libera.

My hope is that this client will outlive me and that IRC will live on.

1. righthand ◴[15 Oct 25 13:50 UTC] No.45592556[source]▶
I love Halloy and it inspired me to make more software in iced_rs, which is a fantastic simple to use UI framework. [0]

The project is even often cited as a good iced_rs code reference repo.

What I like about iced_rs over Qt is that you can write all your code in a single language in whichever style you like. As opposed to Qt which requires you learn an obtuse scripting language (qml) ontop of Cpp and locks performance improvements behind commercial license.

[0] https://iced.rs/