frontend VS botnet

Thank you for the response!

> support splitting ingredients by typing a comma

That sounds sensible, yep; filed as https://github.com/openculinary/frontend/issues/210

> "Are there any ingredients that are not available?" ... I knew what you meant, the search will exclude recipes with those items, but it felt weird to read

That makes sense too. If I remember correctly, that prompt was most-recently rephrased during a pandemic-related lockdown (with subsequent unpredictable ingredient shortages), and so that context may have affected the choice of language; but I agree that it's odd phrasing and should be updated.

Hopefully that'll be a relatively quick correction, although it will require internationalization (currently machine-translated without review by native language speakers, not ideal); it's filed as https://github.com/openculinary/internationalization/issues/...

> box around the search form has a huge gap to the right of the form inputs

> I'd probably expect to see filters for vegan/veggie/pescatarian / low gi etc but then maybe not

Two good points here, and possibly combinable. Perhaps those dietary recipe filters could be placed in the excess space available next to the search controls.

Today the search API does theoretically support filtering[2] on a few dietary properties -- but that functionality isn't yet visible and available to the user.

Feature request filed as https://github.com/openculinary/frontend/issues/211

- Shopping list feature ... your icons seem too small and fiddly, and I'd want a few buttons on screen of common things - so I can tap those instead of typing

That sounds smart. This feature (and the meal planner) are under-attended relative to the recipe search/explore components, in my opinion. Let me think about this for a while, there are a few considerations and I'd like to be concise.

[2] - https://github.com/openculinary/api/blob/72075f66cd6fda5b809...

I was/am working on a project (https://github.com/JMS55/botnet), where users upload scripts compiled to WASM to control entities on a game server, so that they can write custom behavior.

Never heard of extism before, but second using WASM for plugins/scripting/extensions. I'm using it for botnet(1). Each player uploads a WASM program to control their bots. Both the server and the bot SDK are written in Rust, and can share some code.

4. Speed

I'm hoping to write my thesis for my master's degree on this topic this year. I'm also in the process of writing a game like screeps, where users provide a WASM script to control units for an RTS-style game (without combat though) https://github.com/JMS55/botnet.

It's amazing how simple it is to constrain memory usage, runtime duration, and secure exported functions to a WASM VM. Performance is also great - currently about ~6 microseconds per tick per unit, up to ~200 microseconds when doing expensive pathfinding. All that, while letting you program your units in Rust - the same language as the server is written in, while being able to share code with the server, and not having to use something more script-y like lua.

The boilerplate sucks, but it works well when you don't need a ton of different functions. I use wasm as a scripting language for running isolated untrusted scripts in a game I'm developing, and it works really well https://github.com/JMS55/botnet.

I'm working on a Screeps-like game using WebAssembly. You compile a script to WebAssembly, and for each robot you control on the server, it runs the script in an isolated environment to choose an action for that robot. The goal is to write a program to coordinate your robots to gather resources and expand your control of the server.

Here's an example bot script: https://github.com/JMS55/botnet/blob/master/example_bot/src/...

The basic infrastructure of the project is more or less in place, besides a visual replay viewer which I'm working on right now. What's needed is a bunch of work in designing game mechanics and APIs. I don't actually have any plans beyond bots running around and harvesting randomly generated resources at the moment. Feel free to open a discussion on the github page if you're interested in Rust, WebAssembly, and video games.

https://github.com/JMS55/botnet