simple Internet Relay Chat(IRC) client written in Rust

These are features currently implemented or known to work:

• Establish initial TCP connection to an IRC server
• Receive lines/messages from the server (with basic parsing)
• Respond to PING messages with PONG (so the connection stays alive)
• Print incoming lines to the console
• Send messages / chat to channels / users
• Minimal command handling for server pings

Here are things you might want to implement next:

• Full support for all IRC commands
• Send messages / chat to channels / users
• Better error handling, reconnection logic
• Command‐line interface or console input to let the user type commands
• Support for multiple channels
• Graceful shutdown
• Logging, configuration, and possibly TLS support
• Tests & examples

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/razzat008/riic.git
cd riic

# Build
cargo build --release

If you want a development build:

cargo build

To run the client, you’ll invoke the compiled binary. Right now the project expects command‐line arguments (via env::args) that are passed to Client::build(...). The exact expected arguments depend on how Client::build is implemented.

Example:

# (From project root, assuming binary named `riic`)
cargo run -- coolnickname chat.freenode.net 6667

Or if built in release:

./target/release/riic <args>

Once running, the client will connect, start receiving messages, reply to PINGs, and print lines to the console (if they’re nonempty).

# Suppose you pass args: server, port, nickname, etc.
# After connecting, you might see:

0: :irc.example.com NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname
1: :irc.example.com NOTICE AUTH :*** Checking Ident
2: :irc.example.com NOTICE AUTH :*** Your host is irc.example.com
...
5: PING :1234567890
====The position: 0 and token is: 1234567890====
6: :NickServ!service@services NOTICE your_nick :This nickname is registered.
...

This demonstrates the PING → client responds with PONG, and lines get printed.

At this point, there is no configuration file support. All configuration must be passed via command-line arguments and handled inside Client::build(...). You should examine build in your lib.rs or wherever Client::build is defined to see exactly what arguments are expected (server, port, nickname, maybe channel names, etc.).

• https://chi.cs.uchicago.edu/chirc/irc_examples.html#joining-talking-in-and-leaving-a-channel
• https://wiki.freenode.net/view/User_Commands#JOIN