[Squirrel Lang] Adding new scripting language

[ERAGON007]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Sometimes in scripting community i saw some people having issues with Lua oop which is not good at this moment.
Lua doesn't support inheritance, etc.... natively (these features are available with usage of 3rd party libraries)

now imagine we use that libs and create a bunch of classes/instances in our script , the memory usage won't be good as we need. and in real-world projects we actually need to use a bunch of classes to shorten our code and make it maintainable.

Describe the solution you'd like

Lua is good for simple/small projects but the problem myself seen in my 3~4 years of scripting Lua for mta is that the exception handling is boring and it has kinda bad/ugly syntax. now let's compare them for example.

Actually Lua is faster than squirrel, BUT squirrel is a high level programming language which supports so many thing's that Lua doesn't support natively

for example creating some class/instances in lua take so much more memory and CPU usage because of usage of 3rd party libs

in addition squirrel has a better performance in this case because of native support for them.

and squirrel has a nice syntax which isn't that hard for any Lua programmer to learn it. actually it can make our code more maintainable.

Squirrel

local something = {}; // This is a table, just like the ones in Lua
try {
    // Do something that generates an error: mis-assign a new table slot
    // Should be something .newSlot <- 1234
    something .newSlot = 1234;
} catch(exception) {
    logger.error("ERROR: the index 'newslot' does not exist");
    // Displays "ERROR: the index 'newslot' does not exist" in the log
}

Lua

local ped = createPed(415, 0, 0, 0)

do
    local response = setElementDimension(ped, -1)
    if (response) then
        print("Job is done")
    else
        print("Got a problem!")
    end
end

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

The squirrel language is and Open-source scripting language and it's best for IoT and/or embedded programming purposes
and the official repository for this language is https://github.com/albertodemichelis/squirrel

it's also usable in cpp programs which means it can also be used in mta-blue project too!

[Lpsd]

Whilst it would be cool to see additional language support in MTA, unfortunately this is unlikely to happen for the same reasons as #2169 - the main ones (imo) being:

• Maintainability
• Security
• Support (present, future)

There's more than that - but the issues that each point entails are enough to tackle for now.

Implementation of the language itself is an entirely different discussion - I'm not even sure that the route taken by #2169 is how we want to do it.

Others have suggested overhaul of module/scripting API to provide anyone with the ability to implement a language - which already solves some of the deeper issues within maintainability and support (at least from MTA's point of view). That'd be the way to go imo.

[ERAGON007]

Is this limitations related to usage of anti-cheat inside RakNet modified library by MTA team?

most of these issues maybe can fixed if team put anti-cheat related codes to mta-blue repository then you can simply exclude anti-cheat from your RakNet project and add it somewhere better and keep them isolated.

a second language for mta is really needed and we can see it's often asked by people who developed for so many years

Lua is really boring, yes it's working but we have so much limitations both from mta and/or IDE's or Lua itself

[Disinterpreter]

Is this limitations related to usage of anti-cheat inside RakNet modified library by MTA team?

It isn't related. It's more related with our policies of security, and elder architecture (spaghetti-code).

most of these issues maybe can fixed if team put anti-cheat related codes to mta-blue repository then you can simply exclude anti-cheat from your RakNet project and add it somewhere better and keep them isolated.

Isn't necessary.

a second language for mta is really needed and we can see it's often asked by people who developed for so many years

Lua is really boring, yes it's working but we have so much limitations both from mta and/or IDE's or Lua itself

Whe know :(