[password4321]

Does anyone have time to explain the downsides of the HashiCorp plugin approach (gRPC to another process) vs. creating an interpreter?

https://github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin

[throwaway894345]

Using an interpreter locks you into the interpreter's language (e.g., no NodeJS, Python, etc plugins), but you are able to pass around memory and call procedures from the host program directly instead of having to write an IPC shim layer.

EDIT: Updated for accuracy

[thegeekpirate]

They actually created their own interpreter https://github.com/traefik/yaegi

Here's their original announcement post https://traefik.io/blog/announcing-yaegi-263a1e2d070a

[throwaway894345]

oof, I noticed that they referenced a different interpreter; didn't realize they also created it. My bad.