Goals

System goals

In order of importance:

Scalability for events (Philip acknowledged the need for it publicly 3 years ago).
Scalability along the other 3 dimensions.
Interop with 3rd party worlds and grids.

In no particular order:

Improve portability across compilers and platforms.
Remove dependencies on specific versions of required libraries.
Add an event API for use in scripting language bindings.
Refactor access to required libraries to allow alternative choices.
Refactor subsystems to allow alternative choices (see below).
Decouple the viewing from the presence handling, allow N:1 (multiple views per presence).
Replace refactored 2D GUI by decoupled alternative [footprint reduction].
Replace refactored audio system by decoupled alternative [footprint reduction].
Make the refactored 3D navigation/camera event-driven [for scripting, machinima].
Attach QA/test modules for test-driven development and system regression testing.

Among the many other benefits, physical refactoring gives us the opportunity to harness multiple cores.

Occasionally I just despair and decide to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. Tomorrow, that is. ;-)