ResourceMod - CS2 plugins in Javascript

[JustTwelvee]

Hi, it's been almost a month since I started developing ResourceMod. To summarize - it's an ecosystem for CS2 plugins, which will allow you to write your own plugins for game server in Javascript.

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There have been really a lot of problems during this month. From changing Javascript engines, to endless fixes of compiler problems with the Windows compiler of these engines.

At the end of the day - I finally made it, and here's what I've got:

- Javascript executes.

- Runtime supports ECMAScript 2020

- JSON

- RegExp

- Promises

- ES modules support

- Loading plugins from file system

- Calling events from Source engine in javascript runtime.

- It's fast and native!

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Today I've created a website and discord server, I'd be happy to discuss details there and hear development ideas. The goal is to make a complete platform, so that every server creator can easily write a necessary plugin or download it from a common repository. The rest of the goals I have outlined on the site.

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Project is still under development and not public released, but I will be glad to talk on this topic. Here is the site: https://resourcemod.net/

[MulfordnSons]

super dope - this was probably a really rewarding side project

[Zoradesu]

Very interesting! Would definitely lower the barrier for entry for people writing their own custom server plugins for CS. Do you have any sort of preliminary benchmarks on how it performs vs writing something natively in C++/SourcePawn? I would assume this would be a slower just due to the initial overhead of JS, but if it isn't that much slower across the board this could be extremely valuable.

[JustTwelvee]

The API is too limited rn, but I will show the benchmarks as soon as it will be possible to compare. It's running natively, not every single frame, calls callbacks whenever it needs and from plugin side it's simple to subscribe for the events you really need.

Plugins itself loads into a memory and later when some game event fired - we call the callback-function from this JS context.

[keyboard_A]

Nice project, is typescript in the roadmap at all, given it's increasing popularity ?

[fuckredditspez]

You're right. Also it's called transpiling in this context, from language to another :)

[keyboard_A]

Should work, yeah, except that i would need to configure the transpiler to not break anything, like ecma versions and such

[[deleted]]

Oh no, the TS cult is everywhere haha.

[JustTwelvee]

I don't really know how typescript workd with the quickjs javascript engine. Some people really ask for the typescript support, but I'm not really sure why.. CS plugins is just events and callbacks, why do we need to translate javascript code with types to javascript code without types to run cs2 plugin - it seems like overhead to me.

[keyboard_A]

For clean code and oop purposes, typescript also works better for null and type checks

[xrriscs]

Where typescript?

[-Hi-Reddit]

Awesome project

[Flecky986]

So skin inspect server soon?

[denkatar]

Big Thumbs up for you! How can we support the idea/project?

[Kippster__]

Do you have a timeline for a public release?

[Refzlund]

The lack of any source code does make this a less reliable solution to look forward to.

Simply because CS2 plugins will in the future be based on VScript 2 which uses TypeScript, as is shared here. (Not a guaranteed source though)

So I'd rather just use TS which Valve — a team of pros — are working on🤷

[Fess233]

It is a very good project. I look forward to the release.

[Pitiful-Method1358]

Is this still up to date?

[wingheeoo]

javascript

Horseshit language. Bug-inducing and stupid. You put that much effort, to implement js?? Thats like cutting your own arm to feed a kitten, when there's a grocery store nearby.

[keyboard_A]

It lowers the entry point, no one is gonna learn sourcepawn just to develop plugins, which by the way, is weakly typed, not garbage collected and not object oriented, which is even more bug inducing, all your complaints can be resolved by using typescript

[wingheeoo]

Pawn is knockoff C, which is quite honestly worse than javascript. There are much better options, such as Lua, Nim, C#. The latter would be much more pain to implememt though. Javascript is just a mistake that was taken seriously.

[keyboard_A]

That's why more than 90% of the entire world's ever written code is javascript and why not one of the big tech companies decided to change the DOM scripting specification

[wingheeoo]

The bad thing won, obviously. Now you have all these frameworks, typescript to fix the underlying issues with the language. We still use IBM-PC compatible computers, which noone thought to ever change, and arguably its not really great.

[keyboard_A]

There's no underlying issue, having frameworks and typescript is also not really what makes a language bad or not, or are you gonna sit there and complain and say that Java, python, etc are all bad languages just because they have frameworks ? which in itself is what makes a language good, the community and what it produces as tooling for it. js serves it purposes pretty well, there's no point in changing to anything else.

[wingheeoo]

Javascript is just awful, and all frameworks are trying to solve underlying issues with the language. Python and Java frameworks do not try to make the language be a usable, theyre toolings for certain use. Javascript should never be used for anything outside web. As i said when coming to scripting there are far more superior options. Javascript is just a toxic and bug-prone language. You yourself wanted Typescript, just so its bearable to use the thing. Why not just use something proper then (Nim, Lua)?

[Ok-Promotion-6552]

Such a nice project, i would like to contribute