Moving from hexchat to Halloy

I'm not hanging around on IRC a lot these days, but when I do I used hexchat (and xchat before). Probably a bad habbit of clinging to what I got used to for the past 25 years. But in the light of the planned removal of GTK2 , it felt like it was time to look for an alternative. Halloy looked interesting, albeit not packaged for Debian. But upstream references a flatpak (another party I did not…