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JOURNAL FOR MONDAY 31ST DECEMBER, 2012
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SUBJECT: Time for just one more post
DATE: Mon Dec 31 16:13:48 GMT 2012
Last day of the year and time for one last post. Back in April I decided to
rewrite WolfMUD again. So far it's taken about 9 months and 4,500 lines of
code and comments. Slower progress than I would have liked - but I've been
learning Go at the same time and usually only have a few hours a week free to
do actual coding.
Current state of play is that WolfMUD runs on various Linux and Windows
setups, either 32bit or 64bit[1]. I now have access to a RaspberryPi for ARM
development although WolfMUD was already running on ARM 32bit using the QEMU
emulator. It would be nice to try ARM 64bit as well ;) The server itself is
stable and has currently run for weeks at a time under a continuous barrage of
thousands of testing 'bots'.
The main thing is I'm *STILL* having fun working on WolfMUD!
What about Go?
Go is a very nice language to program in and I think it's developers have done
a fantastic job. Go itself is a small language with a well defined, documented
and compact standard library - which is what I liked about Java in it's early
days before it became bloated. I'm also glad that the developers want to keep
Go like this and are not caving in to the cries of "We want feature X, Y and Z
added!". The only thing I think Go is really missing is an O'Reilly Go in a
Nutshell book which I would love to see :)
Looking forward to 2013 I guess the next bits to add to WolfMUD are player
logins so a server can realistically be put on the net and loading of data
from text files - which will also be needed to load and save players.
Hope you all have a happy new year and prosperous 2013!
--
Diddymus
[1] Should also run on Mac OS X and FreeBSD but I've not tried it on those
platforms yet.
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