X-Chat, unremarkably written XChat or even xchat, is one of a virtually all popular IRC clients for Unix-like systems. These are too available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X (via an offshoot of the task, known as X-Chat Aqua, which keeps in sync by owning a independent development branch & is lot further popular than a official version maintained per Fink project). It has the tabbed interface, support for multiple servers, and the high level of configurability. Each command line and graphical versions are available, although utilize of the graphic version far outweighs apply of the command line version. These are licensed under a GNU General Public License and uses a GTK+ toolkit for its interface.

X-Chat appears to use been strongly influenced per it used to be that-popular AmIRC client for the Amiga.

X-Chat may be written by having the total of programing language: Perl, Python, Tcl, and Ruby, which are available when external plugins & contain the binary module interface, ordinarily for the C programming language.

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