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hubot is still an active project?? i haven’t heard much about it since pre-slack era… does anyone here still use it?

by rileytg 11mo ago

danpalmer 11mo ago
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 11mo ago
  I’m still using Hubot. What are these alternatives you refer to?
  - danpalmer 11mo ago
    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 https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-python was one of them, I think there were a few others.
  - joeyguerra 11mo ago
    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.
TheTaytay 11mo ago
We used it back in the day as well for some non-essential stuff. This post caused me to dig into where hubot stands. It looks like gijoeyguerra upgraded the code to ESM: https://github.com/hubotio/hubot https://github.com/hubotio/hubot and also wrote/upgraded the adapters for Slack, Teams, etc: https://github.com/hubot-friends https://github.com/hubot-friends It would be cool to see this get legs again. If nothing else, a maintained cross-platform, hackable bot framework is useful! This caused me to do some more searching, and I stumbled across: https://joeyguerra.com/blog/2023/resuscitating-hubot.html https://joeyguerra.com/blog/2023/resuscitating-hubot.html Nice work joeyguerra!
- joeyguerra 11mo ago
  Thanks. It’s been cool to work on it.
butterandguns 11mo ago
When I left GitHub in 2022 it was still heavily used for so many things. Unsure if it's still in use there today but it wouldn't surprise me.
joeyguerra 11mo ago
I have confirmed that at least three people are using it. I don’t trust npm download numbers. I personally use it a lot for the same use cases people use postman.

hubot is still an active project?? i haven’t heard much about it since pre-slack era… does anyone here still use it?

by rileytg 11mo ago

hubot is still an active project?? i haven’t heard much about it since pre-slack era… does anyone here still use it?

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 11mo ago
I’m still using Hubot. What are these alternatives you refer to?
- danpalmer 11mo ago
  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 https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-python was one of them, I think there were a few others.
- joeyguerra 11mo ago
  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.

TheTaytay 11mo ago

We used it back in the day as well for some non-essential stuff. This post caused me to dig into where hubot stands. It looks like gijoeyguerra upgraded the code to ESM: https://github.com/hubotio/hubot https://github.com/hubotio/hubot and also wrote/upgraded the adapters for Slack, Teams, etc: https://github.com/hubot-friends https://github.com/hubot-friends It would be cool to see this get legs again. If nothing else, a maintained cross-platform, hackable bot framework is useful! This caused me to do some more searching, and I stumbled across: https://joeyguerra.com/blog/2023/resuscitating-hubot.html https://joeyguerra.com/blog/2023/resuscitating-hubot.html Nice work joeyguerra!

joeyguerra 11mo ago
Thanks. It’s been cool to work on it.

butterandguns 11mo ago

When I left GitHub in 2022 it was still heavily used for so many things. Unsure if it's still in use there today but it wouldn't surprise me.

joeyguerra 11mo ago

I have confirmed that at least three people are using it. I don’t trust npm download numbers. I personally use it a lot for the same use cases people use postman.