Protocol Parsing: Internet Relay Chat

• Check out the submissions for the Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2025

  https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2025/entries

• Check out Asteroid Radio by Fade and Glenneth:

  https://asteroid.radio

Today we are going to try to write a simple IRC client library in the Janet language.

We’ll use the built-in PEG parser to parse IRC’s line-oriented text protocol.

Will it be good? No.

Will you want to use it? No.

Will it be funny? Maybe.

Check out some legitimate Janet code for the purpose here:

https://github.com/brandonchartier/janet-irc-client/blob/master/irc-client.janet

IRC specification: https://modern.ircdocs.horse/