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== Motivation == | == Motivation == | ||
Reinventing the wheel in a project that already relies so much on third party libraries simply makes no sense from an outsider's perspective, as it takes away precious and spare manpower from the crucial bits of the system.<ref>{{cite web | |||
|url = https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/21740584/ | |||
|title = <nowiki> Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal alternatives : possible, of course, </nowiki> | |||
|author = <nowiki> Nicolas Quijano </nowiki> | |||
|date = Mar 4th, 2009 | |||
|added = Mar 4th, 2009 | |||
|script_version = 0.40 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
Nasal is de-facto unmaintained and has been unmaintained for several years meanwhile, Nasal is a niche language that is really only used by the FlightGear project, long-standing issues such as its [[How the Nasal GC works|garbage collector]], which isn't suitable for a semi-realtime application/simulation like FlightGear, haven't been fixed in years. | Nasal is de-facto unmaintained and has been unmaintained for several years meanwhile, Nasal is a niche language that is really only used by the FlightGear project, long-standing issues such as its [[How the Nasal GC works|garbage collector]], which isn't suitable for a semi-realtime application/simulation like FlightGear, haven't been fixed in years. | ||