switch to slate-irc to handle irc protocol?

[QP Hou]

https://github.com/slate/slate-irc seems to be better than node-irc.

[Tyson Cleary]

That actually looks really cool. I like how it's all done in plugins.

[David Vo]

A possible alternative could be Soon(tm), a complete rewrite of node-irc with support for IRCv3.