[danpalmer]

I used it in ~2018-2020 on Slack (as well as waaay back on Campfire), and it was showing its age. The Node ecosystem, for all its faults, has come a long way since Hubot was created, and working with Hubot felt dated. I believe the original was written in CoffeScript!

That said, if all you want is a few quick scripts hooked up to chat, it's still pretty low effort. Alternatives require a fair bit more setup, and while they're better for it, maybe you don't need that.

[kevin1024]

I’m still using Hubot. What are these alternatives you refer to?

[danpalmer]

Can't remember for sure, but when I was scoping out Hubot in 2018 for my then team, there were a few bot frameworks – one in Python that looked promising but more complicated.

I think https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-python was one of them, I think there were a few others.

[joeyguerra]

Would you care to share what you use it for? Im just super curious because it seems like the industry moved on from chatops and hubot around 2017.