Development Update
By Rob Knight on Saturday, February 7th, 2009In our introductory post, we set out a goal of developing an open source prediction market engine. This goal was based on the fact that we had already developed a basic prototype and we were aiming for a fairly quick release. And we haven’t released it yet - we’ve gone dark.
Our initial prototype was coded in Python, using the Django framework. And it works - you can log in, buy and sell contracts and generally participate in a market. It’s very rough around the edges, but it’s functional. I’ve been looking at the code, and it’s still good code. So where’s the release?
This is a very good question. The answer is that it’s a lot harder to release unfinished code than it seems. We’ve also spent a fair bit of time experimenting with other ideas, paradigms and programming languages (in particular, XMPP and Erlang).
Having said all of this, we’re aiming to release something soon. Watch this space!