On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 13:22:55 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
One of the primary uses of dynamic loading of libraries might well be to provide plugins. By plugins I mean extensions to an existing program that can be added to the program at run-time, and can be written by separate authors who don't necessarily have access to the source code of the program, but who do understand the rules provided by the program documentation as to what capabilities the plugin must have.
It might be purely a matter of historic interest at this point, but DDL was basically doing plugins in D ages ago: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl I /think/ this was the dynamic loading scheme h3r3tic used in his game engine back in the day. I'm sure someone with a better memory than me could explain it better.
