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| author | David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr> |
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| date | Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:43:14 +0100 |
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| 1 # Plugins | |
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| 3 Irccd can be extended with JavaScript plugins. This chapter will tell you how plugins work within irccd and how to | |
| 4 create your first plugin. | |
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| 6 This chapter covers also some things to do and to avoid in plugins. | |
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| 8 ## Why JavaScript? | |
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| 10 You may wonder why JavaScript was chosen in irccd. Originally, irccd used Lua as the scripting language but for many | |
| 11 reasons, it has been replaced with JavaScript. | |
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| 13 However, many aspects between Lua and JavaScript are similar: | |
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| 15 - Both languages are extremly small with very light API, | |
| 16 - It is easy to sandbox the interpreter for security reasons, | |
| 17 - It is very easy to implement your own API from C++ code. | |
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| 19 The current JavaScript interpreter is powered by [Duktape][duktape]. | |
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| 21 [duktape]: http://duktape.org |