I Modernized BitchX — The Legendary 90s IRC Client Now Has AI Built In

BitchX is Back If you were on IRC in the late 90s or early 2000s, you know BitchX. It was THE terminal IRC client. The ASCII art splash screen. The split windows. The built-in scripting engine. The attitude. It was abandoned around 2004. The last real commit was years ago. The SSL implementation used SSLv23_client_method() which was removed from OpenSSL 3.x. The codebase had over 1,200 unsafe sprintf / strcpy calls. It couldn't connect to modern IRC networks. I fixed all of that. And then I did something nobody expected — I built Claude AI directly into it. What I Changed Starting from the BitchX 1.3 codebase (119,286 lines of C), here's what's been modernized: Security: Replaced SSLv23_client_method() → TLS_client_method() (OpenSSL 3.x) Fixed a remote DoS vulnerability in CTCP UTC parsing Converted 57+ sprintf → snprintf in network-facing code Replaced bzero → memset , bcopy → memcpy , inet_addr → inet_pton Fixed SASL authentication memory leak Fixed command injection vulnerability in