It was little more than two weeks ago that I was doing some refactoring and some bug fixing that it occurred to me that the scripting api had a somewhat limited design. I thought that maybe I could delegate plugin logic to external code kinda like kakoune and 4coder does.

I thought that it could be cool if plugins were implemented by talking to pepper through stdin/stdout. It would be a nice experiment to see if this was viable. However even before I began prototyping this solution, I noticed that pepper was not yet prepared to talk efficiently to other processes. After a little bit of investigation and after watching some of the early episodes of Handmade Hero, I thought that the best way I could implement inter-process communication, console input and file io, was by implementing some kind of platform layer myself.

I've messed around with the crate winapi before and it was fun, so right now I'm taking my time learning more about the underlyings of the win32 api as I implement