To clarify: - Ripping out the framework caused lots of issues for me. Maybe my choice was wrong? I actually (in spite of my complaints) used two 'interesting'

To clarify: - Ripping out the framework caused lots of issues for me. Maybe my choice was wrong? I actually (in spite of my complaints) used two 'interesting' languages for myself. I polished my ocaml for the miner and switched to Clojure for level3. The latter was hard, because the infrastructure was down a lot and you already had a hard time getting past 'Kicking of your trial' messages - only to fail because leiningen complains about the inability to verify ssl certs for example. Try to fix it (doesn't happen locally...), push, fail to kick of the execution of the build script.. Loop. - The miner: As I said, I loved the idea of that challenge. The problem was highly interesting. My problem with pvp was mostly "There's no way to compete". When I joined it felt already like installing a bitcoin miner on my home machine. openCL based miners? That's changing the field of course and the only way to participate at that point is to follow - and I'm running a laptop here with an integrated Intel chipset for everything else. That totally ignores the fact that I don't know a thing about openCL or CUDA and would've started from scratch (as w/ Scala, as w/ go). I certainly understand the fascination, but .. how many people _could_ compete against each other? The implementation (gpu based) and the network (git pull was sooo slow, same for push) made this inaccessible. At least for me.