I'm thinking about rewriting my monitoring tool (currently in #Fennel) in #Rust, and using rust_lisp for "configuration".

Mainly because I want to do a few things that are considerably easier from Rust - Lua libraries for some of the things I'd like are... not quite there.

when people ask "what advantage could there be to using IRC in this day and age?" ...

I just got annoyed with not finding out about build failures in CI for #fennel. I went to look to see if any chat integration was supported by my CI host, and they didn't have any. then I realized I could just write my own IRC notifier with a short script.

it's 13 lines and the only dependency is netcat, a 27kb program that you probably already have: https://p.hagelb.org/irc-announce.fnl.html