Q: Status RS3?
marceloverdijk opened this issue · comments
Hi @kirsle , it's been some time but later this year I might get involved in another chatbot implementation. I was looking a bit around and found this information regarding RS3. Did you made any progress on it and what is the status?
Hey Marcel,
Not much progress was made on this, at all. 😄 It was an idea I had during the "second wave of chatbots" (~2016 when Facebook, Microsoft and others had bot platforms and there was a boom of interest in bots for a time... after the "first wave" of bots ~2000 with SmarterChild on AIM and the A.L.I.C.E. bots).
If I were going to tackle it now, I'd look at using the Rust language instead of Go... for its support for building C-compatible shared objects for easy bindings to other programming languages, but without the fat Go runtime environment with its garbage collection and so on. Having the 5 different implementations of RiveScript 2 became a liability after a while as they all became slow to change as I didn't want one version getting too far ahead of the others on feature support.
The other repo, https://github.com/aichaos/rivescript.next has some more notes I wrote down about the problems and limitations that RiveScript 2 has that would be taken into account for RS3 to do better.
I have other personal projects now that compete for my free time, tho if chatbots see a third wave of interest it may be a good time to dust off these ideas and see what can be done!
I fully understand!
I also lost a bit of interest during wave 2 bc it didn't lift off at our clients and other (side) projects popped up as well.
Thanks for explaining the status and let's see how it goes!