[gameprogrammer] Re: server side scripting

[Michael Ribbons <mribbons@hotmail.com>]

Chris,
A scripting engine may be slower than pure c++, but there is one big advantage. You can modify code at run time - This has to speed up development and testing because you aren't always restarting the server to see/test your changes.

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> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 18:17:41 -0500
> From: cnystrom@gmail.com
> To: gameprogrammer@freelists.org
> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: server side scripting
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> On 5/25/07, Roger D Vargas <luo_hei@yahoo.es> wrote:
> > I have designed my server oriented to heavy scripting. C++ code does low
> > level stuff, but knows nothing about entity attributes (stats, skills,
> > items). All that stuff is handled by lua scripts.
> > A friend told me that approach is very bad. His solution is to define a
> > server/client specific language that gets checked at compilation time,
> > opposite to my approach (code is checked at runtime).
> > REally is that bad to make server dependant of scripts?
> 
> Does your code work?
> 
> How good is your friends game?
> 
> Chris
> 
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