[sldev] Re: "scripting the user interface" jira (Dzonatas)

[Dzonatas]

Right. We were talking client-side, however.

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> Using an existing language for the in-world SL would not have made as 
> big a difference as you think, since they'd have to reimplement the 
> runtime and possibly the compiler anyway. There are very few, if any, 
> publicly available runtimes that are suitable for the kind of 
> ultra-lightweight execution model that's needed when you have to 
> support thousands of concurrent and mutually untrusted scripts 
> performing realtime control in a single execution context, and none of 
> them are as fast or provide as good a protection model as LSL. The 
> closest alternatives are the implementation languages in MUDs and 
> Mucks, and they don't have to provide real-time response nor support 
> the level of concurrency that SL does, because all of them are 
> strictly driven by user action (the ability for scripts to run 
> autonomously without users present initiating actions is pretty unique 
> to SL)... and I don't know of any of them that use a general purpose 
> runtime in the server.
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