I'm just curious, what do you guys think is the Best IRC client?
TFlash, Colloquy, mIRC, Linkinus, XChat, Xchat-Aqua, BitchX, or other?

I personally like Linkinus because of the GREAT user interface and the cool noises.

I like mIRC for the PC because you can do scripting, but the User interface is ugly.

Post your opinion and comment!!!

first mIRC's UI can be changed to basically anything you want, and scripting for it is a double edged sword. On one side you have a language developed solely for that IRC client, which forces people to learn a new language if they care to script for it. On the other side you have the fact that so many people use the client that scripts are readily available.

Personally I use mIRC because XChat fails to provide a multi-row tab bar so I would have been stuck with either scrolling in the treebar, or scrolling in a single line tab bar. I like Xchat because it supports so many languages that when I need a script I can find someone out there was have never really touched IRC to help me (Besides its native in linux)

As far as the macs go I don't have a mac atm, but have helped many people with IRC and macs and from what I gathered many of the clients on the mac are limited for power users (and Xchat Aqua is missing many features).

yeah they are yet to make a GOOD IRC client for the Mac...

I use xchat but I wish that it had support for mIRC language because when I taught myself how to script for IRC I didn't know that mirc only worked in the one client. Either way xchat still trumps mIRC (client) UI wise, but I think that mirc has more features.

If you know of anywhere that I could start to learn any of the more popular languages let me know.

Yeah I guess you have a good point there...

well...i use mIRC i just payed for it and i love it
for mac i use mIRC to in VMWare Fusion witch works great i used to run xchat but it got laggy
so in the end will say mIRC is the best!
~easy_way

I like XChat because it is the best for me to use. I personally think that mIRC is the best IRC client ever.

Even though I'm a Mac bigot I use mIRC in Parallels. It's the only windows application I still use.

Run my bot in mIRC on windows, and on OS X colloquy ftw!

I use mIRC. It's awesome