Create a Google Talk bot with Node.js: Part One

It would be really great if Google supported persistant char rooms like IRC. That would make these kinds of bots really usefully.

While 'const' is cute, it's not a standard feature:<p>"The current implementation of const is a Mozilla-specific extension and is not part of ECMAScript 5."<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/const" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...</a>

I have a side project that provides hosted bots: <a href="http://getinstabot.com" rel="nofollow">http://getinstabot.com</a>. I don't think there's much interest, though.