jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:08): jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:08):I'd like to introduce rocco, a chat bot written in Roc! :smiley:
jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:08):@rocco help
rocco (Sep 19 2022 at 11:08):Hi, I'm @rocco, a Roc chat bot!
Subcommands: echo, help, issue, pr
See https://github.com/JanCVanB/rocco :smile:
jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:09):Currently, rocco reads the second word of any message mentioning them, and if it's one of those 4 words above it responds accordingly. If not, it returns some kind of error message instead.
jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:09):Theoretically it could do almost anything, and I welcome your contributions to make it do whatever you want!
jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:11):@Anton suggested we could add some way to create a new issue from the last (few) message(s), which would definitely be useful
jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:11):You can also private message it, though, so text-based games could maybe also work, haha
jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:13):More broadly, it could be an easy way for us to run text I/O prototypes of our apps in the cloud without having to set up fresh cloud deployments for each (since there's no limit to how many subcommands it could have)
jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:14):Future aside, I really enjoyed containerizing a Roc app & deploying it - very fun to feel it interoperate with a different category of useful tech
jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:16):@rocco issue 4064 was one of the surprises I ran into, but @Anton helped me figure out a lot of CI/CD stuff - thank you, @Anton !!
rocco (Sep 19 2022 at 11:16):https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/issues/4064
jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:17):(very minor issue, though, and looking to make that irrelevant by using the Json library soon)
jan kili (Sep 19 2022 at 11:17):@rocco echo that's all! :tada:
rocco (Sep 19 2022 at 11:17):that's all! :tada:
Zeljko Nesic (Sep 19 2022 at 12:50):Awesome!
Zeljko Nesic (Sep 19 2022 at 12:50):@rocco echo @rocco echo @rocco echo
Zeljko Nesic (Sep 19 2022 at 12:51):@rocco echo @rocco echo @rocco echo @rocco echo
rocco (Sep 19 2022 at 12:51):@rocco echo @rocco echo @rocco echo
Zeljko Nesic (Sep 19 2022 at 12:51):@rocco echo Cmon' do the recursion
rocco (Sep 19 2022 at 12:51):Cmon' do the recursion
Bryce Miller (Sep 19 2022 at 13:26):(deleted)
Bryce Miller (Sep 19 2022 at 13:26):(deleted)
Bryce Miller (Sep 19 2022 at 13:28):@rocco echo @Zeljko Nesic What, do you just expect me to bark like a dog at your command?
rocco (Sep 19 2022 at 13:28):@Zeljko Nesic What, do you just expect me to bark like a dog at your command?
Bryce Miller (Sep 19 2022 at 13:28):@rocco echo oh wait…
rocco (Sep 19 2022 at 13:28):oh wait…
Zeljko Nesic (Sep 19 2022 at 21:58):@rocco echo Woof
Georges Boris (Sep 20 2022 at 08:28):haha did rocco put Zeljko in a block list?
Georges Boris (Sep 20 2022 at 08:28):(deleted)
rocco (Sep 20 2022 at 08:28):naughty boy
Georges Boris (Sep 20 2022 at 08:28):I love this idea so much! Congrats @JanCVanB !
Jared (Sep 23 2022 at 18:57):How hard would it be to replace the go webserver with a custom "chatbot" platform (written in rust)? Then it would be "all roc"
Brendan Hansknecht (Sep 23 2022 at 19:16):Given how simple the go web server is, shouldn't be hard. If you do a synchronous rust web server platform, you don't have to do anything too complex around the ffi.
Async is still messy on the other hand.
Brendan Hansknecht (Sep 23 2022 at 19:17):Also, roc glue should help with any type conversions if you want to pass around more structured request information.
Brendan Hansknecht (Sep 23 2022 at 19:18):*simple for having to deal with a platform and ffi and such. Obviously, still requires working on a platform and potentially dubious bugs.
Brendan Hansknecht (Sep 23 2022 at 19:34):@Jared is this something you want to try and do? If not, might make a good example for a beginner session on platform development. I am thinking of leading one of those at some point
Jared (Sep 28 2022 at 18:28):I probably won't be tackling it in the immediate term, but I'd love to see a recording of that session!
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