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When comparing The Lounge vs irc.c, the Slant community recommends The Lounge for most people. In the question“What are the best IRC clients for UNIX-like systems?” The Lounge is ranked 10th while irc.c is ranked 16th.
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Pros
Pro Free
Pro Highly maintained
You can see the activity here. For example 62 pull requests were merged from 2018-02-17 to 2018-02-24.
Pro Hosted on the web
Always up.
Pro Single server
Each instance of the client can only connect to one server and then you can join multiple channels with the join command.
Example: "irc -s irc.freenode.net", then "j #lua" and "j #chicken"
Pro Open-source
The source code (a single C file) is under public domain.
Pro Infinite scrollback
You can move up and down the history with the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys.
Pro Automatic reconnection
It automatically connects you back if you happen to get disconnected.
Cons
Con Server, not an application
This is a server, not an application, so there's that extra bit of overhead.
Con Uses NodeJS
Javascript...
Con Documentation
Its website and README do not give enough information about shortcuts and commands. You have to look those things up in the source file.
