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Will there be more than one scripting language? Not really a fan of LUA, will we be available to use c++ to code plugins?

Try a search for previous discussion. The short answer is no, unless you are willing to dedicate time to develop it and then maintain it for the foreseeable future.

You could simply edit the source code as an alternative to C++ plugins. But that would be much harder than learning and using Lua.

Also, building dynamically loadable c++ systems for a multiplatform system with binary distribution is basically infeasible. The ABI is to unstable. The only way to do it reliability would be to use C as a binding layer. So unless you want to build a system that translates tolua++ binding instructions to C interop stubs, and build a copy of the manual bindings we are not likely to get c++ plugins. If its performance you want the best strategy is to get the hot loops integrated into the server core, and help with luajit integration.

LuaJIT would be a huge improvement when it comes to performance. The server would then need a lot more RAM for plugins but I think it would be ok

(12-24-2015, 09:19 AM)SphinxC0re Wrote: [ -> ]LuaJIT would be a huge improvement when it comes to performance. The server would then need a lot more RAM for plugins but I think it would be ok

We aren't suffering performance issues due to Lua's speed. And I remember Xoft's challenge.

We already tried LuaJIT thanks to DiamondToaster, but the performance improvements weren't what we (or at least I) was hoping for: https://forum.cuberite.org/showthread.ph...4#pid19494