07-08-2009, 08:29 PM
(07-08-2009, 08:24 PM)Jay link Wrote: The only thing I can see the open source move beneficial to is the SA:MP community. The LVP community is quite large, but let's face it, quite stupid to. If people where going to be interested enough to commit code to 3.0's code base without actually being able to play and test it themselves right away then they simply would have applied to become developers. As Matthias stated I don't think the community has many experienced coders - looking at the scripting section in the SA:MP board of this forum shines a light on it.
In my opinion PHP would be better in the maybe pile. The only four developers that have knowledge of PHP are Peter, Wesley, Pugwipe and Badeend. With Wesley being the only one active of the four, I can see PHP eventually resulting in the projects death. With the Pre compiler already finished and offering a lot more capabilities and advantages over pawn, I don't see a reason not to stick with that. It looks really easy to and wouldn't require fucking about getting PHP to work on a SA:MP server.
Jay
The functionality that the precompiler adds to pawn is default in PHP. And PHP really isn't that hard, you can learn from tutorials and other code quite fast in my opinion. You can start with the basics, that are similar to pawn, such as if and else statements, the only thing that's really different is the use of variables, PHP does not need you to specify the type, especially strings are way easier to use in my opinion, no need for format anymore, though there are functions that are very similar to format and would allow you to keep using that syntax.