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Is this TUI, GUI, or source coding with some [other] output?
You're saying it has its own programming language ("Hive-"). Does it onboard you, or how do you learn or use it as someone unfamiliar with it?
Also Hive-- is extremely simple. It’s meant to be a abstracted over, but is very straightforward to learn. Currently the language is documented in the form of design notes under
design-notes/hivemm-design.txt. It isnt meant to be user facing but does hold all the information required to use hive--The plan is to have very extensive documentation.
The game has no ui, it runs as a background process that you talk to over IPC. You send Hive-- code to a worker and any value that code exits with is returned to you over the socket. You can only see the data your workers can gather from the surrounding environment. The debug build currently prints the position of worker 0 to the terminal for development purposes.