06-17-2017, 07:34 PM
I think this is suicidal at least 
In my opinion it's easier and a lot less work to implement protocol support directly in C++. The networking stuff is already relatively standalone in Cuberite - just look how easily the new protocols were added - usually within days of the Vanilla release (remember 1.1, which took us more than a month?). I can see no advantage in having yet another layer exported into plugins, not to mention that it would need proper isolation from regular plugin logic, we'd basically have two kinds of plugins - protocol and regular ones. The maintenance cost would be huge, and the protocol implementation would be much more difficult in Lua, because of the Lua-to-C++ layer having some limitations (mainly threading).
In my opinion it's easier and a lot less work to implement protocol support directly in C++. The networking stuff is already relatively standalone in Cuberite - just look how easily the new protocols were added - usually within days of the Vanilla release (remember 1.1, which took us more than a month?). I can see no advantage in having yet another layer exported into plugins, not to mention that it would need proper isolation from regular plugin logic, we'd basically have two kinds of plugins - protocol and regular ones. The maintenance cost would be huge, and the protocol implementation would be much more difficult in Lua, because of the Lua-to-C++ layer having some limitations (mainly threading).