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I would much much rather see a reboot of the MOO concepts (persistent object-oriented world, global time).
I know the existing LambdaMOO core and server are still being maintained, and web-ified, but even though I am something of a dissenter from the whole Rust trend, I'm very interested in this:
https://github.com/rdaum/moor
Several years ago, I built an area reader for a bunch of Merc/Diku/other old .are files which you might find useful[0].
[0]: https://github.com/ctoth/area_reader
ToastStunt is an actively developed fork of Stunt which is a fork of LambdaMOO. It's extended a lot of what LambdaMOO offered via patches, as well as adding a lot of new and much needed stuff. Active Discord community as well. And several large MOOs are running it instead of LambdaMOO these days.
https://github.com/lisdude/toaststunt
It's slowly getting traction - Kotlin on Android has a "live update" feature (in development, only available in alpha release), for example. Multiple less mainstream languages also offer the feature. Nim got it in the last major release, for example. V has it as one of the base features. Erlang and Elixir had it since forever. Common Lisp as well. Racket and Clojure are a little more limited than CL, but also support it. Many interpreted languages offer some degree of this, either by default (JavaScript) or as a library/package (Python, Ruby).
In general, programming language features take about 20 to 30 years to go from obscure niche implementation into the mainstream. Look at lambdas - anonymous function literals - they're now everywhere, including Java and C++. Ten years ago, though, only some scripting languages had it. The feature itself is as old as the bones of the Earth (LISP, 1960, 63 years old). The same is true for many other "advanced" features. I think this is tied to generational changes - each generation of programmers has a chance to bring one or two lesser known features into mainstream, and then they're content with that. Other features have to wait for the next generation to discover them.
As for Smalltalk - I made a mistake and based the implementation on GNU Smalltalk, which is unmaintained. I should have gone with Smalltalk/X, Visual Works, or (begrudgingly) Pharo (or Cuis). I started the project as yet another attempt at making a MUD, but then changed focus to making a productive command-line-based programming env for Smalltalk. Then I changed my mind again and tried to make it into a usable shell. Here's the project: https://github.com/piotrklibert/stshell/ The screenshots focus on the REPL/shell side, but in the source you'll see things like "server", "player", and "world". There are a few locations IIRC and you can move your character between them still. It was an interesting project, but without a clear vision of what it should be it lost focus and I left it to rot after a while :(