[BAILOPAN]

It has happened! The Half-Life 2: Source Software Development Kit has been released by Valve.

Although we won't have anything for you instantly, we will keep the community apprised with little things along the way, such as demos, sample plugins, and header code so people can start seeing how to mod for SourceMod.

The recent Scripting Language poll was a huge hit, and it was interesting to see what everyone thought of different languages. First, the news that will please everyone:

SourceMod will be a highly dynamic mod. So far, you can make C, AMX, or JavaScript plugins all at once simply by adding the appropriate DLLs. In the future, a Python addon may come too.

However, the "official" language will be JavaScript. Small/AMX has far too many limitations, and the code base is not only messy but decently buggy. AMX Mod X spent a great deal of time improving it with a 64-bit port and a debugger, but it's time to let Small die in the gaming world. Nonetheless, you will still be able to write Small plugins.

The prospect of being able to do things like:

   var name = player.name()

Instead of:

   new name[24]
   get_user_name(id, name, 23)

Should be appealing to people. Again, more information will be available as we get things done.

[kingpin]

finally!!, hope to see the good work continue guys

[PM]

Yeah

[PM]

Everyone had been waiting for this new mod to come out and control thier server. Will it be setup like amx x mod? with meta..?
Thank you

[PM]

So, lets work on it..... ;-)

[imported_JaK Sh!T]

Wo0t atlast SDK is out........Muahahahaha soon I can use slap. Good luck you guys keep up the good work

[twistedeuphoria]

Will Small plugins be approved on the same ground as JavaScript ones or will JS plugins get more attention?

[BAILOPAN]

IMO, they should not be approved at all. Usage of Small should be considered deprecated.

[ThantiK]

w00t, I needed to learn some Java...;)

Nice...will we be getting some demos soon? -- a simple slap or bury would work nicely...

Anyhow, this is what I am waiting for to even start a CS:Source server...will get rid of llamas quickly.

[Geesu]

BAIL does java have 3D arrays? And are there compiled files like small's .amx file?