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