lisp-chat
2024-10-12
An experimental chat irc-like
Lisp Chat
An experimental chat irc-like written in Lisp.
Installation
Install [roswell][ros] and add ~/.roswell/bin/
to the PATH
variable.
After that just type:
ros install ryukinix/lisp-chat
Lisp-chat it's on Quicklisp as well, tested on the following implementations:
- SBCL
- CCL
- ECL
Usage
Load the server
$ lisp-chat-server localhost
Create a client
$ lisp-chat localhost
As alternative of localhost
you can use server.lerax.me
which
points to a lisp-chat server running in the port 5558.
Alternative clients
If you want test this and don't have the Lisp requested, I have those alternatives for you:
- Terminal text-based python client
- Terminal ncurses python client
- Netcat client (wtf?)
On Python client, I wrote in a way only using ths stdlib avoiding pain to handle the dependency hell, so you can just call that:
$ python client.py
So finally... netcat. Yes! You can even just use netcat
! An user
called Chris
in past days just logged in the server with the
following message:
|16:30:37| [Chris]: Used netcad
|16:30:41| [Chris]: netcat*
|16:30:50| [Chris]: bye
So you can type netcat server.lerax.me 5558
and go on! I tested on
my machine and works fine! The main reason is because the
communication between server and client just use raw data. For better
synchronization with text data from server while you typing, I suggest
you to use a readline wrapper like
rlwrap
calling as rlwrap netcat server.lerax.me 5558
.