I'm part of a team working on a player (a vm) to run small user scripts with voice and vision.

We've picked the irc "/" idea for commands as a way to communicate between processes.

For example, we have /say and /listen commands.

I started a document to describe that this afternoon (very early wip - only to make an idea)

https://u.sicp.me/dhSk5.pdf

And, yes! IRC is still alive and some networks (like freenode) are even growing.

FYI we are on irc.rizon.net #eva