Here's a special quandry. I want the MUD to be live hackable. Since it's already using 8sync, it already is, in the sense that you can redefine things on the fly.

It's possible to do the "runtime is all their is" approach that the network spaces desiderata document encourages, but I'm not satisfied with that. Theoretically there will be player-and-gameplay-generated content too (rooms and etc), so yes.. but I also want certain structures described in s-expressions. I have a nice syntax for it. I think it'll be a lot more pleasant for me to hack as a world-builder.

But in order for this to work, I either need to shut down and restart the system or...

... or I need a dynamic linking system, and a "rebuild-and-replace" system. Yikes!

I kind of already have the roots of the dynamic system. Structures declared in the initial structure are stored in a special mapping of 'special-object -> actor-id.

Adding support throughout the whole system for rebuilding and being replaced dynamically though? That sounds desirable but it'd take a lot of work.... it probably won't be done by the end of the jam. But it sounds like what I want. Unfortunately, the "living object" aspect of the actor model makes doing so complicated.

I wish what I wanted wouldn't be such a mess!