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According to the website python,tcl, and javascript can be used https://irssi.org/modules/

Thank you for the information, guess I didn't look thoroughly back when I was looking for a terminal based IRC client.

Why? Perl's not that bad.

And you really want something that has to support all those language stacks? Ew.

it is just a chat client why does it need to support all those languages

i understand that Perl5, isn't really exciting anymore

but .. i think it's ok

IRC client is useless without a certain degree of extensibility. Having a wide range of scripting language support is important IMO.

But you can extend it. I know that recently vim has added python support, but people used vim script to do amazing things, and look at the OS we know as emacs.

> recently vim has added python support

Sorry if this makes you feel old, but that's a literal decade ago.

git's also over a decade old :(

Man, I _am_ old.

I've been using IRC for over 15 years without scripting anything... I wouldn't call a client "useless" without scripting support.

You could, you know... learn some perl?

Devs these days, so spoiled

Why does it need to support one?