[MUD-Dev] NEWS: mooix beta 1 released (successor to perlmoo)

[Joey Hess]

Mooix is a new moo with a rather different architecture than most.
Notably, every method runs as a separate process in a sanndboxed
environment on a unix system, the unix filesystem is used to
represent objects in an object-oriented way, and a non-unix security
model is built on top of that.

Mooix objects can be built using any language available on the unix
system it's installed in; I use mostly perl, with C for speed and
shell when I'm feeling perverse.

Some of the interesting wrinkles of using unix in this way include
true preemtive multitasking for free, free "database" caching, the
ability to integrate useful tools like editors and pagers into the
moo (so you can code on the moo from inside the moo, using vi). The
downside is that anyone who is given programmer rights might as well
be given a standard unix user account and shell along with them.

Aside from these difference, and a pretty good NLP, the moo is
fairly similar to lambdamoo in overall structure of the object
classes and such.

The home page is <http://mooix.net/>, and there are mailing lists, a
demo moo, docs, and so on there.

It only currently runs on linux, though ports to the BSDs shouldn't
be too hard.

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see shy jo
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