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is it still a thing ?


I sure hope not


why web GUI are you using for your app ? its super clean


Where do you host your servers ? And why GO? Do you use Three.js ? Thanks


Servers are on AWS and Cloudfront. We started out with three.js for rendering but we froze at 78 and are currently working on rewriting the renderer to not use the scene-graph and instead move to a more data oriented design.


Have you seen the HypeHype renderer talk?


Yep! It's very interesting, but our problem space is a bit different because we can do some optimizations based on our models being voxels. Great stuff though!


Why did you use GO for server side ? did you test with other teach ? Can you share how your server side design of servers looks like ? Do you use simple ec2 or what ?


We went for Go as it's 1) about 100x faster than Python in testing 2) Garbage collected so prevents many memory-related bugs (many of us have a C++ background so we're familiar with manual memory management and its pitfalls) and 3) It's super stable.

We did look at Rust, but Rust suffers from a little bit of the "shiny new thing" syndrome. We have simple needs and wanted something fast and boring :)

The server-side design is also as boring as possible, just standard web stack for serving, and websockets for multiplayer. We use EC2 for everything yep!


ok thanks , do you use GOLANG for the web front end or just backend WS service ? Can you share which GOLANG framework ? or all standard GO std ?


how big is the wasm file ?


The original IGT binary version on EEPROM? Probably 2Mb, but also including all gaming machine monitoring code, attendant screens, device drivers, network protocols etc, with room to spare on the EEPROM.


26.07 MB (index.wasm)

and 16.35 MB of resources (index.pck)


26MB according to firefox network tab


how does he monetize the site ?


GUI


looks like its running on opengl/dx


what go web framework you folks are using ?


not gumroad user , but reading your stuff . question do you use your own payment/billing processor or are you using somtihng like stripe / paypall ?


Good post , the key here to find abandon project that companies still use . i saw it in wordpress plugins and java maven plugins


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