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It's pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, https://weechat.org/ https://weechat.org/ support: Python/Perl/Ruby/lua/tcl/guile
by yegle 10y ago
It's pity that Irssi only support Perl as its scripting language. In contrast, https://weechat.org/ https://weechat.org/ support: Python/Perl/Ruby/lua/tcl/guile/Javascript.
UPDATE: I stand corrected.
- systems 10y agoit 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
- yegle 10y agoIRC client is useless without a certain degree of extensibility. Having a wide range of scripting language support is important IMO.
- jimktrains2 10y agoBut 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.
- semi-extrinsic 10y ago> recently vim has added python support Sorry if this makes you feel old, but that's a literal decade ago.
- jimktrains2 10y agogit's also over a decade old :( Man, I _am_ old.
- coldpie 10y agoI've been using IRC for over 15 years without scripting anything... I wouldn't call a client "useless" without scripting support.
- tomc1985 10y agoYou could, you know... learn some perl? Devs these days, so spoiled
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- pavel_lishin 10y agoWhy does it need to support one?
- shanemhansen 10y agoAccording to the website python,tcl, and javascript can be used https://irssi.org/modules/ https://irssi.org/modules/
- yegle 10y agoThank you for the information, guess I didn't look thoroughly back when I was looking for a terminal based IRC client.
- tomc1985 10y agoWhy? Perl's not that bad. And you really want something that has to support all those language stacks? Ew.