I recently rewrote my team's IRC bot to use tools.namespace and core.async. You can check out the source on GitHub at https://github.com/mybuddymichael/pgbot.
To explain briefly, the bot is basically several loops communicating over channels. The primary processes are two async/threads, reading lines from the socket and printing lines to it. A few subsystems running in async/go blocks can each give a few channels to the connection loops. The two connection threads are continuously >!-ing or alts!!-ing with those channels to distribute and gather messages. Even though the app is small, using channels is very nice for decoupling the subsystems from the connection object and its message loops. And using tools.namespace has been a dream for development. I can make changes and have a new IRC bot running with the new code in milliseconds. Totally dreamy stuff. My interaction with tools.namespace all happens through the user namespace, which is excluded from jars via Leiningen's profiles feature. Our bot is now running in production internally without any hiccups. Much thanks to Rich, Stuart, and the rest of the gang for building such cool libraries. And suggestions for improvements to the system or workflow are always welcome. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
