In summary to write an IRC bot, open a TCP socket to an IRC server in whatever language you want and start doing stuff. To write a slack bot, go jump through their hoops and proprietary tech, and maybe they'll let you do stuff.
Thank goodness the web and email are open protocols, let's hope in 10 years time we have added a standard chat protocol to that list, and no one is wasting time on proprietary chat platforms.
Thank goodness the web and email are open protocols, let's hope in 10 years time we have added a standard chat protocol to that list, and no one is wasting time on proprietary chat platforms.