[Opensim-users] use of C# in scripts

[Ethan Gardener]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019, at 7:34 PM, Serendipity Seraph wrote:
> javascript and embedded V8 engine?  Particularly something node-ish with
> easy of protocol handling, event handling, async event loop at its core

Caution #1: We need floating point numbers. Javascript freely converting between numbers and strings can produce some very strange-looking floating-point bugs.

Caution #2: Node's own author discovered its design to be a mistake.  He wrote it up, posted it; his post was taken down as "too controversial".  (The hubris and arrogance which builds up around some projects is *horrible!*)  I'm sorry I don't remember details, but part of it was something like, "there's no such thing as non-blocking; using the CPU takes time."  Node's design arose out of a desire to imitate some dangerous hacks a very smart programmer made very carefully to stretch the limits of 90s web servers.  Node was not designed with the same level of skill.