Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)?

Re:Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)? by filchermcurr on Sunday October 10, 2021 @01:49PM (#28820432)

I'm really excited about things from the past that have managed to bubble to the present. Nothing modern has really excited me in a long time. (I'm hopeful something in this thread will spark that old feeling again!)

The Creatures Evolution Engine source code (if anybody remembers the Creatures games / Cyberlife) getting released. Now we'll know exactly what makes those Norns and their world tick, which is fascinating: https://archive.org/details/lc2e-sun-16-jan-2000.tar01

All of the Infocom source code and information about ZIL and the stories from the founders.

The LambdaMOO server getting forked and modernized with Stunt and ToastStunt. Now there is even talk of the original server getting updated again after 20 years of the maintainer doing nothing with it.

Fun stuff!

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Re:Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)? by kcartlidge on Sunday October 10, 2021 @02:12PM (#28820651)

Infocom! ZIL! ZSCII! Z-Machine! Inform!

(Yes, they excite me too! Have an upvote!)

Edit: Oh, and having 2,916 front-end frameworks to choose from. Yay.

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Re:Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)? by idontevengohere on Sunday October 10, 2021 @11:11PM (#28824243)

Anytime I see someone with exclamation marks I'm excited!! Gonna look + see what these are!

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