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Comment by pdpi

Software engineers at large would benefit from playing World of Warcraft, and seeing the ongoing fight between Blizzard and add-on authors.

WoW's whole UI is built in the same Lua environment as add-ons, and Blizzard has implemented some interesting restrictions (like the taint system[0]) to prevent add-ons from completely automating gameplay.

0. https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Secure_Execution_and_Tainti...

parent pdpi 5 months ago

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