The plugins are natively compiled Rust crates, not interpreted or dynamically loaded.
We considered WASM and libloading, but plugins often require database connections or other privileges. With WASM, supporting that would be the SDK’s responsibility.
Dynamic loading with libloading didn’t offer enough benefit for this design, so we chose modular crates compiled into the application.
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The plugins are natively compiled Rust crates, not interpreted or dynamically loaded.
We considered WASM and libloading, but plugins often require database connections or other privileges. With WASM, supporting that would be the SDK’s responsibility.
Dynamic loading with libloading didn’t offer enough benefit for this design, so we chose modular crates compiled into the application.