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

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Paul B wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2008 22:02:02 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > not quite accurate; they do run in the pasma process but as they aren't
> > running native code errors in them won't bring down the entire desktop.
> > instead, these errors, or "crashes", are caught by the
> > runtime/interpreter/vm and handled gracefully.
>
> Well since that was my main point I suppose this discussion is basically
> over, I did read somewhere a while ago (around the time of 4.0) that a C++
> plasmoid could bring down the desktop, I guess whoever said that was wrong
> or it's been fixed since then.

the above applies only to scripted plugins, not C++ plugins. C++ can crash the 
application, but the plasma shell restarts itself.

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