Plugin

This is the second article in the series about plugin infrastructures.

I also showed an example of a simple but complete plugin system for an application, all written in Python.

But see, Python has the unfortunate habit of making everything look too easy. To really show the guts of a plugin infrastructure, we’ll switch to C.

I’ve re-implemented the htmlize program from the previous article entirely in C, including a plugin mechanism and the same two sample plugins.

The story doesn’t end here, however. To register itself with the application, a valid plugin is expected to have an initialization function which the application will call.

I'm downloading a plugin.

For [Anne] Helmond, the platformization of the web is a process whereby social media platforms[…]extend their tentacles into the rest of the web, following users in their browsing activities, using API plugins to permit Facebook commentary on far-flung websites, allowing Facebook the ability to sell users ads about things they were browsing, and generally connecting the web at large back into the closed Facebook platform.

A nulled or a cracked plugin is basically a hacked version of a paid plugin that offers its premium functionalities for free.