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Third option: You give them a nice modding API and let them access the core of the game. That way you gain the benefits of a modding API without restricting mod

Third option: You give them a nice modding API and let them access the core of the game. That way you gain the benefits of a modding API without restricting modders' creativity.

sgift 6y ago
Only a third option if you don't care about all the problems the article tells us about. Full access by third party developers and being able to update code are simply at odds with each other. There's no way around it.
- anoncake 6y ago
  That is simply not true.
  - Yoric 6y ago
    How so?
    - anoncake 6y ago
      Allowing addon developers to access private APIs simply doesn't prevent Mozilla from changing them, or anything else. An unstable API is much better than none at all.