Cross platform C++ plugins by supplying source code

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It would be cool, but almost impossible to do with no fuss to the user.

I don't think there's much need for it anyway, as lua is pretty fast. If you wanted more speed, the easy thing to do would just be to plug in LuaJIT.

I know, just for the sake of coming up with ideas I did not list the difficult/negative parts.

One significant issue with doing this is dynamically linking the plugins. The executable would have to be re-linked or we would have to manually load the dynamic library's, using OS specific APIs. Also due to the fact that most platforms do not have a standard C++ ABI, the interface would have to be in C with a C++ wrapper in the plugin.

I am talking about dynamic linking yes, not static. I don't see how this is a significant issue. It's easy to overcome. Plugins would only need a single C interface function, or maybe two if you want to add a backwards compatible versioning system of the plugin API.