Software:HexChat

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Short description: IRC client
HexChat
Hexchat Logo.svg
Hexchat 2.16.0 screenshot.png
Screenshot of Hexchat 2.16.0
Developer(s)Patrick Griffis[1]
Initial release6 July 2012; 12 years ago (2012-07-06)
Repositorygithub.com/hexchat/hexchat
Written inC, Python, Perl, C++, C#
Operating systemLinux, Microsoft Windows
Platformx86-64, ARM
LicenseGPL-2.0 only with OpenSSL linking exception
Websitehexchat.github.io

HexChat is an Internet Relay Chat client that is a fork of XChat. It has a choice of a tabbed document interface or tree interface, support for multiple servers, and numerous configuration options. Both command-line and graphical versions are available.[2][3]

The client runs on Unix-like operating systems,[2] and many Linux distributions include packages in their repositories.[4]

History

The XChat-WDK (XChat Windows Driver Kit) project started in 2010 and was originally Windows-only. The project's original goal was to merge itself with XChat, but evolved from just fixing Windows bugs to adding new features. It started to make sense to support more platforms than Windows. On July 6, 2012, XChat-WDK officially changed its name to HexChat.[5]

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