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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: 0s | 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.

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airstrike ◴[15 Oct 25 15:54 UTC] No.45594493[source]▶
halloy is not only an awesome app but a fantastic example if you want to learn more about building GUI software with iced.

https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

If you're interested in building a GUI app in Rust, I encourage you to go through the examples and showcase apps like halloy

and if you get stuck, can ask our chill and helpful community on Discord https://discord.gg/3xZJ65GAhd

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1. giancarlostoro ◴[15 Oct 25 17:11 UTC] No.45595628[source]▶
I was just looking at that; I've been wanting a nice GUI library for Rust but never found one I liked. A number of them were bindings to other GUI stacks. I might try Iced next time I'm poking around with Rust.