Difficulty of Javascript?

[Aurawhisperer]

Alright, so I think I am ready to move on from the building block steps that RPG introduces to the developer. I wish to format a questing system for the game to proceed, rather than go through the building blocks. Thanks to C# and understanding how to build through code, I feel I can move forward to JavaScript. My only question is how diffircult is JavaScript and what makes it different from C#?

Also, I plan to use Notepad++, but do you experts know any other better programs? Any tutorials about JavaScript? Or maybe some hinted ideas from off RPG Maker itself? Or where should I start on creating a basic quest script?

I know it's alot of questions, but I wish to hear from the experts on what's to be expected if I take this route, so that I better prepare myself and study the features rather than cookie cutting my way through.

Thanks in advance!

 

[mjshi]

Atom is a pretty good syntax highlighter, and best of all, it's free.

 

[Zalerinian]

C# is compiled, JavaScript isn't. For that reason, C# is faster at executing, because when the computer goes to read it, it doesn't have to figure out what things mean, it can already understand them, and is executed quickly. JavaScript is interpreted, meaning that it stays text and a program reads it and figures out what happens in real-time. This is really convenient for the developer, because it's significantly less strict when writing it, but it comes as a trade-off that it's slower, because the interpreter program has to take time to figure out what should happen. This doesn't necessarily make it slow, just slower. But, it makes life nice and easy when programming it. So if you can understand and write C# easily, then once you learn the syntax differences in JS, you'll do fine.

For an editor, I used N++ for Ruby, but have moved on to Sublime Text 3 for JavaScript. I'd recommend either that or Atom for JS development.

 

[Kaliya]

The syntax between C# and JS is fairly similar to some degree, because they're both "C Babies". There are some key differences, such as in C# the return type of methods must be the type in the method header, where as in JS there isn't really a type in the method header as everything is just a function, and therefore anything can be returned. A quick google search can get you more details really.

As for IDE i am an odd one and the IDE i use depends on my mood lol. Usually I use VSCode or Webstorm, but Atom is also nice. Since you seem to be coming from Visual Studio (im assuming, since C# - unless you love Mono like i do ), I'd recommend VSCode as its visually similar, they're also adding plugin support next release iirc.

 

[Aurawhisperer]

Alright. I'll try one of the two that have been suggested. Kinda wish pseudocode was also a coding language, but that would be way too easy heehehe

 

[Aurawhisperer]

Between the two main programs suggested, is there anyway to tell if there's errors or not? That's what visual studio had.

 

[Kaliya]

Nope, not really, because JS isn't compiled its interpreted. You will get errors when you run your script though in the developer console.

 

[Milena]

Alright, so I think I am ready to move on from the building block steps that RPG introduces to the developer. I wish to format a questing system for the game to proceed, rather than go through the building blocks. Thanks to C# and understanding how to build through code, I feel I can move forward to JavaScript. My only question is how diffircult is JavaScript and what makes it different from C#?

Also, I plan to use Notepad++, but do you experts know any other better programs? Any tutorials about JavaScript? Or maybe some hinted ideas from off RPG Maker itself? Or where should I start on creating a basic quest script?

I know it's alot of questions, but I wish to hear from the experts on what's to be expected if I take this route, so that I better prepare myself and study the features rather than cookie cutting my way through.

Thanks in advance!

For tutorials, there are lots already in youtube. SomeRandomDude and Soulpour777 are the two that I can think that can help you to start JavaScript for MV. Try using Sublime Text Editor or Atom to code for MV's plugins.