twitchirc/README.md

A basic twitch chat viewer for windows written in C++20. It streams chat from the twitch IRC server using sockets, and uses SDL2 and SDL2_ttf to render.

#### Features:

- Randomised pastel username colours (based on the hash of the username)
- Non-blocking IO with TCP sockets (Only polls once per frame!)
- No memory leaks™
- You can set the frame rate (defaults to 8).
    - _fast_
- Replies PONG to the PING message so the connection doesnt drop.
- If a username is too long it,,, squishes it into the available space.

#### Non-features:

- Emotes
- Retry on connection loss
- Transparent background
- Characters outside of LATIN-1
- Memory leaks

![pixelated screenshot](screenshot.png)