If I wanted to setup an irc bot, would I go eggdrop like I did in the
90s? Or is there a dominant replacement?
reddit / irc

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fill3r · 2014-03-11 00:47

I remember when everyone and anyone linked eggdrops on UNIX shells
with fat pipes. Before ChanServ, before EFNet's JUPES, maaaan.
Throwback.

Well times have changed. Fifteen years later, if I wanted to bring a
bot to an IRC network, should I bring up an eggdrop? Or is there a
clear successor to eggdrop? Something with an extendable script
framework with a handful of community contrib scripts. I found tons of
bots but none seem like clear winners.

Curious. Thanks.

netbots.tcl 4 life.

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CannedDeath · 2014-03-11 01:18

Supybot is fairly popular and has a lot of default plugins.   It's
written entirely in python.

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Lord_Zero · 2014-03-11 03:06

This is an amazing fork of supybot.

https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria

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unixbeard · 2014-03-11 11:05

eggdrop development has pretty much stagnated.
[wraith](http://wraith.botpack.net/) is pretty common these days, it
forked eggdrop 1.6.

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FiendKing04 · 2014-03-11 11:10

I personally still  use eggdrop, though I suppose you couldn't go
wrong with a portable installation of mIRC, or writing your own.
Others have listed alternatives as well.