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== Open Issues == | == Open Issues == | ||
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|1= The main issue FlightGear is facing is the fact that Nasal is a niche solution and not widely used. However, even supporting Python, Ruby or Lua would bring its own challenges - not just in terms of enormous flexibility/momentum (community), but also due to the sheer number of optional dependencies - i.e. all of a sudden, aircraft might need their own shared libs. Equally, all the architectural issues at the core level would not be magically solved by replacing Nasal with a better-maintained solution like V8 or Lua - i.e. main loop synchroniation and threading would still be a huge undertaking (think extension functions). Basically, some kind of IPC mechanism (like HLA) is the best option for having scripting running in a separate thread/process with explicit synchronization. Ripping out/replacing Nasal would be possible - in fact, having a startup mode that boots a subset of FG without any Nasal would be a very good thing to have for regression testing purposes - but otherwise, FG without any scripting would not be a good thing - just look at the degree of fgdata coding vs. core development, so FG would be severely crippled. Replacing Nasal with a more mainstream language like Python or Lua would be a cool thing from a community standpoint, but it would make all the architectural/core development related issues even more prominent, and that probably very soon. Whenever there's very little feedback/interest or action from core developers to implement a certain features/ideas directly, scripting is the most natural approach - which is why we have features like the Bombable add-on and the local weather system, optional stuff that core developers didn't need to get involved in. | |||
|2= {{cite web | |||
| url = http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=232076#p232076 | |||
| title = <nowiki>Re: Sometime, with Yasim... frame-rate is slow</nowiki> | |||
| author = <nowiki>Hooray</nowiki> | |||
| date = Feb 14th, 2015 | |||
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=== HLA === | === HLA === | ||
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