On 25.03.2010, at 21:59, Lawson English wrote:
How would a plugin work differently than the FFI's as far as safety goes?
Instead of crashing, you get a nice friendly "primitive failed" error ;)
EIther approach might make sense. The ability to do both gives flexibility tot he platform, without detracting from any safety or whatever issues... For a specific task, if you don't need XYZ, don't install it and and whatever its dependent on.
That's exactly why we have FFI but use it as little as possible.
- Bert -