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                    JOURNAL FOR SUNDAY 31ST DECEMBER, 2023
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SUBJECT: Another year of development
   DATE: Sun 31 Dec 16:59:14 GMT 2023

Another year of development has been and gone. I usually say a year of WolfMUD
development. However, this year I took a break to work on my Mere programming
language…

This year saw 11 Mere releases: v0.0.1-v0.0.11, with a complete rewrite at the
start of the year. The journal saw 59 posts — eight more than last year :)

The Mere code has seen 366 individual commits. Mere has come a long way over
the past year. The code still needs cleaning up, publishing to a public Git
repository and made available to anyone who wants it. In the meantime Mere
ICE[1] has been made available so that people can play with the language and
provide feedback.

The biggest change this year has been the replacement of my main development
machine. Going from 4 cores/4 threads i5-2400 with 8Gb RAM and spinning rust
to 16 core/24 threads i9-12900T with 64Gb RAM and 2Tb NVMe drives. The upgrade
was long overdue with the i5 being 12 years old.

Another change was moving all of the domains and email for WolfMUD over to
Mythic Beasts. That went well. I just need to move my dynamic DNS over too.

I said in last year’s round-up I intend to use Mere for scripting in WolfMUD.
That is still the long term plan, although Mere isn’t quite ready yet.

But, I’ve been missing WolfMUD :( Starting in the new year I will be focusing
more on WolfMUD proper and Mere will have to take a back-seat.

WolfMUD still needs skills, shops and traders, monetary currency, crafting,
player housing and quests — all the fun stuff :) When I last looked at WolfMUD
I believe I was working on the help system. I’ll be picking that up in the new
year. Easing myself back into WolfMUD and getting familiar with an old friend
again will take a little while…

Happy new year everyone!

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Diddymus

  [1] The annexed works: /annex/


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