Hey Folks! I’m Chuck

[Tkblackbelt]

Hey Folks,

Happy Friday, and hope everyone is doing well. I tend to be more a lurker on forums, but figured I could do an introduction and get out of my shell lol

My name is Chuck, and I used to play Conquer in early to mid 2000s. I stopped a year or two after TQ added the fan and tower items in. I followed epvp quite a bit (same username there) and got into learning programming from the folks posting sources there. One memorable part was when Pro4never released a proxy base and me and my friend added botting functionality over a weekend, which also got him into learning to code .

I’ve been a professional dev for just over a decade now, mostly working in fintech and a bit in advertising. Currently I mostly work with the JVM, using Kotlin, Spring, and Flink. 
 

I started teaching myself Elixir/Erlang about a month ago after seeing some of the awesome features of the OTP. I don't have a lot of free time, but as I learn Ive been slowly working on implementing a classic server with it. So far I have most of the shared parts working (ciphers, packet ser/der, protocols) + the auth server.
 

I’m also using this server to experiment with a distributed architecture as well. So Im setting up the project with a few distinct components that can be deployed separately. The auth, gateways (handle connections + protocol), map servers (hand 1 or more maps), and world server for coordination and stuff.

I’ll most likely make a thread with a github link once I get the source in decent shape that Im happy with. But so far I am really liking Elixir and functional programming. The pattern matching construct is awesome, especially on binary data.

Anyways I appreciate this forum being run to keep the community for these games alive!