Looking for Scriptable asynchronous communication tools (lemmy.radio)

submitted 6 months ago by vk6flab@lemmy.radio to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Anyone know of any scriptable asynchronous communication tools?

The closest so-far appears to be Kermit. It's been around since CP/M, but apparently there's still no centralised language reference and the syntax predates Perl.

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[-] Lodra@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Uh email? It’s not exactly exciting but there are loads of tools available for automating emails. Definitely asynchronous. Does it fit your needs?

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No, it needs to be serial communication. My use case is talking to a CNC.

Edit: fat fingers: "ea" -> "to a"

[-] Lodra@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

lol got it. Definitely not email then

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 6 months ago

That would be fun tho

[-] froh42@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I used expect a lifetime ago to reliably talk to a bunch of very strange ISDN modems.

https://www.tcl.tk/man/expect5.31/expect.1.html

I think something like expect also exists for more modern languages, but tcl is still easy enough to learn (just a little unusual, everything is a string)