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When comparing KISS for IRC (kirc) vs The Lounge, the Slant community recommends The Lounge for most people. In the question“What are the best IRC clients for Windows?” The Lounge is ranked 18th while KISS for IRC (kirc) is ranked 23rd.
Specs
PlatformsLinux, Windows (WSL), MacOS
SASLYes
SSLYes
LicenseMIT
Multi-channelYes
RFC 2812 CommandsFull
PlatformsLinux for server and gui is progressive web app
SASLYes
SSLYes
CTPCYes
EmoticonsYes
GUIYes
MULTI-CHANNELYes
MediaYes
Message historyOptional
Multi-accountYes
Multi-serverYes
Proxy serverYes
Push NotificationsYes
opensourceYes
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Pros
Pro portable
written in POSIX C99
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.
Cons
No cons yet!
Con Server, not an application
This is a server, not an application, so there's that extra bit of overhead.
Con Uses NodeJS
Javascript...