Abstract
Years ago, we had to rewrite our old IRC bot in a hurry, converting it to the Slack messaging API. When we did that, we also converted it to IO::Async and began trying to keep it both async and easy to work on.
This talk will give a brief overview of the bot architecture and how we’ve kept working on the bot simple, most especially by adopting Future::AsyncAwait. We’ll also look at how you can run your own instance of the bot.
Notes
I was very happy with this talk. I thought it looked good, I thought it did a good job describing the bot enough to be useful, and I thought it hooked the audience enough to let me pitch them on why async/await was a powerful abstraction worth learning.
Also, I just like talking about Synergy.