Bitchx

BitchX is a popular one.") and has been considered to be the most popular ircII-based IRC client. citation The initial implementation, written by "Trench" and "HappyCrappy", was a script for the IrcII chat client.

Features Irssi is written in the C programming language and in normal operation uses a text-mode user interface. citation According to the developers, Irssi was written from scratch, not based on ircII (like BitchX and epic).