hirc

A ground-up Haskell IRC client built for educational purposes.

• Relude as a custom prelude

• Plain IO + STM concurrency for the core IRC layer (no monad transformers or effect systems)

• Minimal language extensions: OverloadedStrings, NoImplicitPrelude

  • DeriveGeneric appears only to derive testing instances (genvalidity).

• Brick for the terminal UI, using plain getters and setters instead of lenses.

Running

$ nix run github:damianfral/hirc -- \
  --nickname mynick --username myuser --realname myname --host irc.libera.chat

$ nix run . -- --help

hirc v1.0.0.0

Usage: hirc --nickname TEXT --username TEXT --realname TEXT [--host HOSTNAME]
            [--port PORT] [--log-file FILE]

  Haskell IRC client

Available options:
  --nickname TEXT          Nickname
  --username TEXT          Username
  --realname TEXT          Realname
  --host HOSTNAME          IRC server hostname (default: "irc.libera.chat")
  --port PORT              IRC server port (default: "6667")
  --log-file FILE          Write logs to this file
  -h,--help                Show this help text