Differences between ScriptNode 1 and ScriptNodeLite

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2014 : ScriptNode was the first Sverchok Node to load its algorithms from a python/textfile (located in bpy.data.texts) usually. The py file declared the socket names, and how to process the incoming data.

2016 : ScriptNode Lite was born out of my own frustration with the verbosity of ScriptNode socket syntax, and other more abstract improvements. It has shorter "boilerplate".

ScriptNodeLite currently lives the main Generators menu.

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if you never used ScriptNode MK1 much then it's safe to completely ignore it. Also if you are interested in the source of ScriptNode MK1 I think you'll want to avoid reading that entirely - as it has been thoroughly superseded by SNLite.

If you found a script designed for SN MK1 then it can always be converted into a SNLite script without much effort. Easy to identify SN MK1 scripts by their use of sv_main(...args) as the main work function.

I don't know how much benefit you'll get from reading the SNLite development thread, though I do imagine some insight may be found there. It discusses the evolution of the node, and contains several working examples of the more "niche" applications of SNLite, but also shows a few mundane examples.

thread: #942
docs are in the thread too. but can be found in the documentation in generators/snlite