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by 9dev 1512 days ago
That sounds like a fun thing to build - if only someone I knew used IRC…
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It still is, it reveals flaws in language ecosystems pretty quickly. Lisp was the fastest to fail, just because of the tedium required to open a TCP socket and keep it open =)

Telegram/Discord/Slack bots are a fun project too, but they're a lot easier because they are asynchronous by default.