OOP or procedural programming?

[Sorata_Kanda]

Hello everyone,

I'm sort of new to MTA scripting and thus a beginner to Lua. I have programmed in Java before where I prefered trying to stay on OOP. I just found out that it's also possible to do that in Lua, but it looks kind of confusing to me. Moreover, it's a feature that was introduced in MTA 1.4 which seems not too long ago.

That's why I want to ask you what kind of programming you would prefer? OOP or procedural programming?

Thank you in advance!

[Captain Cody]

OOP is pretty slow in lua in general..

[DiGiTal]

Each one has his way of working . Oop its a just a style of prgramming . It can be easy for u to peactise with oop and other one nope and the contrary too##

 

So. I suggest you OOP as you will find it in many languages

[IIYAMA]

In lua I somehow do not really like OOP to the max. It doesn't feel like how it works in JavaScript(always OOP).

So I prefer a mix depending on the situation, but consisted.

Edited August 26, 2018 by IIYAMA

[Sorata_Kanda]

Let's take a MySQL script with function() _query as an example. If I follow the OOP approach, then it would be a little bit messy because then I would have to create a new MySQL object for each script which would result in multiple connections. So I don't know how I can use the functions of the MySQL script in other scripts without doing OOP.

[Crossy101]

Lua doesn't really like OOP and it can make it it pretty slow an example of this is on the wikipedia page.

--OOP
start = getTickCount()
a = 1
for i=1,1000000 do
   a = localPlayer.position
end
stop = getTickCount()
print("variable", stop - start ) -- Time Taken: 1500ms

--Structural
start = getTickCount()
b = nil
for i=1,1000000 do
   b = getElementPosition(localPlayer)
end
stop = getTickCount()
print("structural", stop - start ) -- Time Taken: 200ms

 

Edited August 27, 2018 by Crossy101

[Sorata_Kanda]

Wow. Didn't expect that it would make such a difference. Well, I guess I'll try to do it this way and that way.

Thank you very much for your responses!

Edited August 28, 2018 by Sorata_Kanda
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