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tshddx/plaid
Multi-threaded, realtime interactive chat in curses
A 2010 C project for multi-threaded terminal chat using ncurses, apparently never finished beyond a mockup stage. Two files and a README, last touched 15 years ago.
- The concept is legitimate — ncurses-based chat is a real use case for terminal environments
- Using threads for realtime I/O in a curses app is the right architectural instinct
- This is not a real project — one mockup file and a project.txt, no actual chat implementation
- Abandoned in 2010 with 2 stars and 0 forks; nobody ever picked it up
- C + ncurses + manual thread management in 2010 with no tests, no docs, no build system — adopting this means writing it yourself
- There are mature alternatives (irssi, weechat, even tmux + ssh) that make this irrelevant