A light and speedy IRC server written in Go.

The goal of gochat is to be a lightweight (low memory usage) and fast (low message latency) IRC server. To do this, gochat takes heavy advantage of Go's goroutines and channels.

To get a server up and running, use the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/camconn/gochat.git
cd gochat
go get
go build
./gochat

The configuration file for this program is found at config.ini. You can specify an alternative MOTD file by either changing the motd option, or by editing motd.txt yourself.

For a near-complete list of the status of various features in this project, look in TODO.md.

This project is licensed under the GNU Public License, Version 3 or Later. A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE.md.

All contributions to this project are to be licensed under this license.

This project was inspired by the goircd project, which is very similar to what this project does. I copied the fashion in how messages are read from sockets (handleConnection() in gochat.go). This is a very small portion of the code base, however, and should not effect the originality of gochat.