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repartee

A modern terminal IRC client built with Ratatui, Tokio, and Rust. Inspired by irssi, designed for the future.

Note: Repartee 2.0 is available. It adds safe live AI translation, modern SASL authentication, complete built-in help, themed WHOIS output, window-range closing, and typing/E2E buffer icons.

Demo

Repartee Demo

TUI (left) | Mobile web (center) | Desktop web (right) -- 1:1 state sync across all interfaces.

Features

  • Live AI Translation -- Translate incoming and outgoing traffic independently per channel or query. Ordered queues, privacy masking, quality checks, provider fallbacks, and fail-closed outgoing delivery keep conversation text under control.

  • Full IRC Protocol -- Channels, queries, CTCP, SASL, TLS, channel modes, ban lists -- the complete IRC experience.

  • irssi-style Navigation -- Esc+1-9 window switching, /commands, aliases. If you know irssi, you already know repartee.

  • Mouse Support -- Click buffers and nicks, drag to resize side panels. Terminal client, modern interaction.

  • Netsplit Detection -- Batches join/part floods into single events so your scrollback stays readable.

  • Flood Protection -- Blocks CTCP spam and nick-change floods from botnets automatically.

  • Persistent Logging -- SQLite with optional AES-256-GCM encryption and FTS5 full-text search across all logs.

  • Nick Coloring -- Deterministic per-nick colors (WeeChat-style). HSL hue wheel for truecolor, 256-color and 16-color fallbacks. Auto-detected terminal capability, configurable saturation/lightness.

  • Theming -- irssi-compatible format strings with 24-bit color support and custom abstracts.

  • Lua Scripting -- Lua 5.4 scripts with an event bus, custom commands, and full IRC/state access.

  • Spell Checking -- Multilingual inline spell checking with Hunspell dictionaries and a 7,400-word computing/IT dictionary. Replace and highlight modes, Tab cycles suggestions.

  • IRCv3 Capabilities -- Full IRCv3 suite: server-time, echo-message, away-notify, account tags, BATCH netsplit grouping, SASL SCRAM-SHA-256, and more.

  • Extended Bans -- WHOX account tracking and extban support -- ban by account name with /ban -a accountname.

  • Web Frontend -- Built-in HTTPS web UI with mobile support. Real-time bidirectional sync with the terminal -- switch buffers, send messages, see nick changes live.

  • DCC CHAT -- Direct client-to-client messaging with active and passive (reverse) connections, auto-accept masks, and nick tracking.

  • Embedded Shell -- Full PTY terminal inside Repartee -- run vim, btop, irssi, or any command without leaving the client. Available in TUI and web (beamterm WebGL2 renderer with Nerd Font, mouse selection, font resize).

  • Detach & Reattach -- Detach from your terminal and reattach later -- IRC connections stay alive. Like tmux, built in.

  • Single Binary -- Compiles to a ~15MB standalone executable with WASM web frontend bundled. Zero runtime dependencies.

  • Written in Rust -- Memory-safe, zero-cost abstractions, fearless concurrency. Built on tokio async runtime.

Quick Install

cargo install repartee
repartee

That's it. No build steps, no configuration required. Connect to a server with /server add and you're chatting.

New to repartee? Start with the Installation guide.