Idle Thought: Why do hosts differ on what plugins are accepted/rejected?

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Not a burning question, but one that does pop up-
for example, LiveProfessor will "ban" plugins that REAPER has absolutely no issue with.
I do of course realize that different programs have different code to deal with plugins.

On a semi-related note, I've all but given up on trying to take a look at old ACID projects, due to the choking, wheezing failure of ACID's plugin-managing scheme. I wish there was a way of editing what folder ACID looks for plugins w/o starting the program.
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Different interpretations and implementations of that specific plugin specification.

It's that simple.

Think of having 10 people that read the same book tell you the story in that book. Good luck getting 1 answer, or even 5 that are the same.

(it's not actually that simple, there's issues with interactions of libraries used, usually memory management or graphical... but 99% of the time it's a spec issue)

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Robert Randolph wrote: (it's not actually that simple, there's issues with interactions of libraries used, usually memory management or graphical... but 99% of the time it's a spec issue)
And then we have bad actors like Waves, who think breaking compatibility with any given DAW by using shell loaders is a brilliant idea.

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