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A beautiful, practical IRC client with a focus on user-friendliness and simplicity.
- Elegant and Practical UI
- Extensible Plugin System
- Support for Windows (Vista or above), Mac OS X (macOS) and Linux.
Since its creation in 1988, IRC has been one of the greatest and most widely supported chat protocols ever. However, IRC clients themselves have barely changed, looking almost no different from 10 years ago, and only barely different from the oldest clients such as ircII.
Aether aims to change that. We set out to create a modern, user-friendly client that would be aesthetically pleasing, while remaining practical and streamlined so that it's still easy to chat with others. In addition to all of this, we wanted to make the client cross-platform, fast and easy to set up.
To achieve this goal, Aether uses Electron, a framework for cross-platform applications written in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
Want to install a release? Scroll to the top of this README; these instructions are for developers only.
Danger: The package in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories is extremely outdated - do not use it.
- Install Node.js (any version greater than 4.0.0).
- Download this repository.
- Open a terminal and cd into this repo.
npm inpm run dev