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Originally Posted by redivcram
I've been writing in Pawn since the very beginning of my scripter/programmer days, which was around 7 years ago. No matter the frustration, I love Pawn as much as I did back then. It helped me climb up to learn more powerful languages.
But, after getting into Object Oriented programming, for a few years, I cannot seem to understand and cope with Pawn's "childish" way of working like I used to, mainly around object types, mostly with the fact that its not an Object Oriented language. It's just gotten a lot frustrating and I'm considering migrating to C++. AKA dish out AMXX and work in the core. AKA Metamod.
I know that the point Pawn is to work in an easier environment for unexperienced developers, hence my backstory. :^), however, I really do consider moving to Metamod plugins. I've tried making a couple of silly little hello world and player death hooking plugins and the concept is pretty much the same, but hey, I can create classes, structures and explicitly name each variable corresponding to its type!
Pawn will always remain my #1 Mentor in programming.
What are your thoughts on Metamod plugins? Have you ever worked as hard in them as in AMXX?
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When you move to metamod plugin, you still need to re-make a couple of functions that AMXX already do it for you.
Also need to re-make a lot of checks fixes to your mod. And finally hook same shits of as AMXX (I mean, player spawns, events, messages, commands and other bullshit).
For me Pawn is not frustrating, is a way to make thinks more easily than reinvent the well, also PAWN or AMXX is not outdated on my point of view, since HL1 engine not changed so much in a couple of years! Why AMXX need to change to?
An langauge can frustrating anyone, is pure preference in some cases.
I really appreciate the amxx dev team work, since have a lot of good tools to make the things easy.
Look new menus for example, is a tool to make my life easy when creating user menus and manage it
Yes Pawn can be frustrating anyone with his design, but is a Pawn language problem not amxx that decide to use it.
Ps. It is my point of view
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