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Tutorial: writing a Microsoft Teams Bot (an introduction to Dark)

This tutorial is relevant to write bots with functions and other backends beside Dark. Lexicon Dark Also known as Darklang (the SEO term), it’s a deployless backend with its own functional programming language and editor. Introduction In the US, Slack reigns supreme, but in Europe, Teams and other Microsoft products are used a lot among development teams. And unlike Slack for which integrations are pretty easy and well documented, it is hard to code something for Teams, even more so if you don’t want to use their overly abstracted Botframework library.