Fa3ien <fab### [at] yourshoesskynetbe> wrote:
> His worries are perfectly licit and likely represent those of many
> people.  This should be adressed with enough distanciation.

  His worries may be valid, but his proposed solution is not.

  He has got it completely backwards. The new scripting language is going
to make the core code *simpler*, not more complicated (because tons of
features currently in the core code can be removed from there and moved
to libraries). Also there's nothing in a more powerful scripting language
that will automatically make it harder for the average user to use. In
fact, it could well be the opposite: If well designed, the new scripting
language could be *easier* to use than the current SDL (or at least make
many things a lot easier).

  With a powerful scripting language lots of features of the core code
can be removed from there, making the core code smaller and simpler, and
it will then be easier to add features to the core code which really need
to be there (if they can't be implemented in the scripting language or it
would be too inefficient to do so).

  Also a well-designed scripting language will make it much easier to
offer an easy-to-use interface to the core features. In the current SDL
each time a new feature is added, adding the correspondent SDL construct
is usually a pain, makes the parser more complicated and overall has a lot
of overhead.

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                                                          - Warp

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