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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: July 5, 2015

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WHAT ALAN DID NEXT…

by Hazed

Alan is currently hard at work refactoring some of the Federation 2 code.

Refactoring is the process of changing a software system, rewriting the code, in such a way as to improve its internal structure – but without affecting its external behaviour. In other words, it’s invisible to the users but makes things the program more efficient and easier to maintain.

The reason Alan is doing this is to make it possible for the code’s output to be displayed in a web format, for when he makes a new browser-based front-end.

There are currently 64,000 lines of code, spread over 430 files, that go to make up the Fed2 game.

So how long until we start to get a beta version of this fabled web-based FedTerm? I asked Alan and he just mumbled. It sounded a bit like he said, “two weeks,” but we have heard that before!

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