[opensource-dev] Client Plugin System Design

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2010-03-08, at 10:06, Morgaine wrote:
> Unfortunately, as you know from your own work, Rob, there is a big  
> difference between using an embedded language inline with its host  
> application's main or single thread of execution, and turning the  
> language into a concurrent execution environment that can run  
> multiple user scripts at the same time, which we need here.

You could use the old fashioned real-time control system approach,  
make it event-driven (like LSL), and simply say that each script has  
to run to completion each time through the event loop... and outlaw  
long running event handlers.