[Opensim-users] use of C# in scripts

[Adam Frisby]

Free helpful tip - Lua has a lot of good runtimes. We're using MoonSharp in Sinespace's client and serverside scripting.

It takes a bit of work to implement maximum execution time limits, memory constraints, etc - but it's a solid runtime and comes recommended by me.

Regards,

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: opensim-users-bounces at opensimulator.org <opensim-users-bounces at opensimulator.org> On Behalf Of Mister Blue
Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2019 4:11 AM
To: opensim-users maillist <opensim-users at opensimulator.org>
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] use of C# in scripts

OpenSimulator could really use new/different script engines. What is missing is a developer who wants to dive-in and make the code happen.

Since there are and have been multiple script engines, the rudiments of a plugable environment does exist as a start toward a cleanup and addition of new languages. That's the easy part, actually. There are some tough problems. Security and resource management (CPU time, memory, disk, ...) come to mind.

Ping your coding friends. Maybe we can find someone who would clean up the existing script engine framework and add a new language.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 5:15 AM Robert A. Knop Jr. <rknop at pobox.com> wrote:

> On 2019-02-27 09:33, Asaff Belfer wrote:
> > I get your feelings and I think the same that LSL can be better. 
> > I've
> been
> > in SL only a few years but I can imagine what goes on behind the 
> > scene. I believe it's a struggle to keep such a company afloat as 
> > there is a huge infrastructure to support and a complex system that 
> > requires end user support as many low tech users are using it and 
> > tech support is an expensive resource. Add research and development 
> > to it and you'll get a monster that you need to feed.
>
> Historically, LSL was originally developed over one week by (for the 
> most part) one guy... and that was the second iteration.  The first 
> iteration was hacked out in one night.
>
>   http://ondrejka.net/metaverse%20memory/2008/01/22/lsl1.html
>
> Anything fundamental to the design of the language that seems odd 
> probably comes from the fact that what we have today is still the 
> direct descendant of something hacked out pretty quickly to replace an 
> extremely quick proof-of-concept hack.  Of course, LL has done a lot 
> of work on it since, but the fundamental nature of the language stays 
> the same.  The work I was most familiar with is when the backend went 
> to Mono (back in 2008 or thereabouts), which helped a lot.  At the 
> time, there was some internal talk (on the part of Babbage and some of 
> the ohters who were actually doing it) that this would make possible 
> C# as a scripting language for SL in the future, but of course none of 
> that ever happened.
>
> --
> --Rob Knop
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