Autre~50 · IA en attente
I had Claude resurrect BitchX, the old IRC client, and it was running the same afternoon
r/ClaudeAIu/MirrorizeAi30 septembre 2026
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Old BitchX source had been sitting untouched for decades: ancient autoconf, K&R-era C, headers that don't exist on modern systems anymore. I'd tried to get it building before and gave up. This time I handed the repo to Claude and just worked through the errors with it. Same afternoon it compiled and connected, ANSI lo…
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Old BitchX source had been sitting untouched for decades: ancient autoconf, K&R-era C, headers that don't exist on modern systems anymore. I'd tried to get it building before and gave up.
This time I handed the repo to Claude and just worked through the errors with it. Same afternoon it compiled and connected, ANSI logo and all
BitchX ircII (https://preview.redd.it/p6vgdxi6rksh1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=e7bf4b9ddbea1418e0c53ec3f291c61fbd900745)
What surprised me most wasn't the fixes themselves, it was that it understood why the old code was written that way and kept the original behavior instead of "modernizing" it.
Anyone else reviving dead projects this way? What would you bring back?