Sorry, i haven't looked at the website yet, so what I may be asking might be pretty vague and far from reality.
Is the bots api available over http (get/post/whatever)? If no, will it be possible to have one? It will allow a whole lot of programming languages to be used. Just authenticate your bot using some token generated by the website, and then run the bot on your own pc or some server. It will allow us to play with the website with our favourite programming language even if you guys don't officialy support it.
For eg. currently my favourite programming language is Red. It is still in alpha, and is relatively unknown to people, so I don't think that there are any chances to get it supported on the website. But api over http would allow me to play with it as well.
All communication is done through standard IO between your bot and the server. Opening sockets in your bot is currently not allowed, as this could lead to unfair advantages for players with faster computers.
We're always looking to add more programming languages, so if you come up with a starterbot in Red, we will consider adding support for the language.
Probably that could be done, but for each round you get X milliseconds. If you would run your bot on your pc via api, you could have an unfair advantage, because you could run it in a 64 core cpu (for example) and you have more "time" to do calculations. I really like their idea. It's easy and fair. Also, they do support a lot of programming languages
Is the bots api available over http (get/post/whatever)? If no, will it be possible to have one? It will allow a whole lot of programming languages to be used. Just authenticate your bot using some token generated by the website, and then run the bot on your own pc or some server. It will allow us to play with the website with our favourite programming language even if you guys don't officialy support it.
For eg. currently my favourite programming language is Red. It is still in alpha, and is relatively unknown to people, so I don't think that there are any chances to get it supported on the website. But api over http would allow me to play with it as well.