Mire

It's a nonviolent MUD. (Multi-User Dungeon)

Usage

First make sure that you have java installed on your machine. OpenJDK is recommended. It should be at least version 8, but newer versions (tested up to 17) should work too.

Do ./lein run inside the Mire directory to launch the Mire server. Then players can connect by telnetting to port 3333.

Motivation

The primary purpose of this codebase is as a demonstration of how to build a simple multithreaded server in Clojure.

Mire is built up step-by-step, where each step introduces one or two small yet key Clojure principles and builds on the last step. The steps each exist in separate git branches. To get the most out of reading Mire, you should start reading in the branch called step-01-echo-server and continue from there.

While you can learn from Mire on its own, it has been written specifically for the PluralSight screencast on Clojure. A blog post steps through the codebase and shows how to make minor updates for a more recent version of Clojure.

Copyright © 2009-2021 Phil Hagelberg Licensed under the same terms as Clojure.