Is this project dead?

[arjpar]

There hasn't been a commit in over a year. I would love it if this project got traction from other contributors if the original author doesn't have any time/effort to continue the project. Unfortunately I don't know Swift (and thus SwiftUI) so I can't help development wise.

[stoiandan]

Hi @arjpar, well, it's definitely stagnant for the moment. I'd love to contribute more on it, and I would have some time, but the thing is, I feel there needs be more interest in general for it.

Would you like to use SweetIRC? As a user, I mean.

[arjpar]

Of course I would love to use it as a user! I think there is a space for a high quality, modern macOS IRCv3 client. Currently Textual (paid) is dead, Colloquy is dead, LimeChat is dead. (These are all the "modern" IRC clients for macOS). The only IRC desktop clients that are actively developed are cross platform (which is fine) including electron apps (which very much has its downsides).

I believe the benefit of using SwiftUI would also be easy porting to iOS/iPadOS.

One thing that could help the adoption of SweetIRC would be adding it to Homebrew Casks. I can definitely do that, but I believe SweetIRC would have to meet certain requirements first.

[gennaios]

Just discovered such. Me too I would a new client. Perhaps the issue isn’t one of interest. Compared to other full featured clients, maybe some aren’t able to switch until another gets to that point with features they want and need.

My swift skills are sort of not great but passable. I haven’t messed with SwiftUI but I’ll give this a try and possibly slowly try to help out.

[stoiandan]

@gennaios Hi,
Sure! I'd be more than happy to accept PRs. I didn't work on this for a while, but we could even sync and work together. My time's limited, but nonetheless, I'll give it a try.