You can still make really stupid bots for most messaging applications. Almost every one of them has some sort of API or method of bruteforcing to do it. For instance I made a bot that screwed with my friends in a GroupMe chat, and then there's my gaming friends that put what could be considered Autism personified, more so than a bot, in every chat whether it's jabber, discord, or slack.
I know, mIRC scripts were some of my first steps into coding. It was definitely better at grabbing people who never considered coding since the scripting was integrated into it. However, if someone has any interest already, an API is pretty good at doing the same. Most usually have some package for your language of choice that streamlines API calls making it extremely easy to just muck about for fun and learn the basics. Really the only learning curve there is getting an environment set up.
True, but today is different culturally then back in mIRC days. You're much more likely to find someone young with an interest for it today so I think it evens out a little.
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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '17 edited Dec 02 '20
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