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Evennia is an awesome project, and the community is fantastic. I've been working with a blind friend over the past two years to gradually piece together a MUD (
by ludicity 3y ago
Evennia is an awesome project, and the community is fantastic. I've been working with a blind friend over the past two years to gradually piece together a MUD (the only kind of game he's really able to play), and while we've been very inconsistent, the community has had infinite patience for fielding our questions.
It was also very professionally interesting to me - I'm not sure what the situation is for many of the Hackernews FAANG folks, but most of the corporate offices I've been in only require people to glue together Python libraries badly. There's never any scope for writing anything more complex than that, and many people can barely use Git. I've always done much better than that low standard, but there's a huge gap between trying to be good and learning from someone that's actually good. Evennia is the first codebase where, when doing development in my own time, I found it frequently useful to dig into the library's source code to learn about how something has been implemented.
It really raised the bar in my professional life for what I consider acceptable... and it was also very thought-provoking that a free framework for making MUDs blows up what's being done at most shops around the world. We've got a real problem in industry, but Evennia has always been a little Zen garden for me. So thanks to the developers :)
- Griatch 3y agoThanks on behalf of developers/community/contributors, this is high praise and a treat/big encouragement for any OSS developer to hear! :D