> and this is where languages like perl/python have a strength since the > files are plain text > so if you think that a script is doing something funky you can just > look at the script and see. Mono/dotnet code is compiled and very > easily could hide just about anything.
I think using anything but Lua or Javascript (each of which has sandboxed implementations and a community of people already familiar with client-side scripting like this) for any kind of server-pushed client side scripting needs an exceptional justification. The only case I can se for using Mono here is to allow people to write client- side scripts that can not be easily eyeballed by the users. There is of course a community in SL which would consider this an important goal, but given the state of the client and the security model (and I'd be happy to discuss that offlist) I don't think that's a reasonable design goal. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
