Gothic Alpha

Laying the ground work for Gothic.

The goal here is to get something that works, but maybe not everything I want.

Objects

This is the core of the whole thing. I want a simple way to have objects on the server be stored or sent to the client.

I think for this, I will start with Capn Proto. Pair that with and Entity system. The Entity interface just needs to return an ID.

The other option would be protocol buffers. On the server, I can extend them by embedding.

Indexing

One of the big challenges is indexing. I think the right approach is not do it right away, but see what comes up.

JS

I need to support as much JS integration as possible. Objects should be automatically exported, so that the only JS work is adding front-end features.

I'll probably use some Lapiz here too - the event system work well with websockets.

I may also pull in GopherJS, but that needs a little further exploration.