Question about C++ vs. Python/Ruby/JS plasmoids

[Paul B]

On Tuesday 26 August 2008 20:45:21 Alex Merry wrote:
> However, kdeplasma-addons is probably a very good place to introduce 
more
> scripted plasmoids.  If I was proficient in a scripted language, I'd make
> nowplaying into just such an example.

I was considering rewriting the binary clock in Python anyway, since last time 
I checked it didn't support true binary, only binary-coded decimal, and it'd 
be good practise for making plasmoids, but right now the Python bindings 
don't seem to be working? (I made a C++ patch for it but it was a very ugly 
patch, many of the figures used were hard-coded in so it involved changing a 
lot of things around to the point were it would have been easier to just re-
write.)

Anyway I'm mainly concerned when I see things like the KTorrent plasmoid (in 
SVN along with KTorrent itself) being written in C++, since it's a new 
plasmoid, not a core part of KDE and written by a 3rd party, I feel it should 
not be running in a way that could bring down the desktop. Has there been 
much thought put into getting more 3rd party plasmoids written in scripting 
languages, and any possible solutions to the dependency problem?