About This File
Free software, multi-platform
WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client, with a text-based user interface.
WeeChat is:
- modular: a lightweight core with optional plugins
- multi-protocols architecture (mainly IRC)
- multi-platforms: Linux, Unix, BSD, GNU Hurd, Haiku, macOS and Windows (Bash/Ubuntu and Cygwin).
- extensible with C, Python, Perl, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme, Javascript and PHP
- fully documented and translated into several languages
- a free program released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3
- an active project with a large community for scripts.