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Originally Posted by Y_Less And coding a mode from scratch is the WORST way to optimise! I say this over and over and over again - use libraries!

It has become the norm around here to create your mode "from scratch" unfortunately. Every time a new person comes on here, they will constantly be bombarded with the fact that you must create your gamemode "from scratch", when you really don't need to do that.

Why don't you save time and gain efficiency by using the libraries already released on the forums, there's no need to create what has already been created from scratch again. If you think the library you are using is not good enough, then make a better one and release it or suggest the changes to the author.

I think one of the core issues is that people don't particularly understand basic programming and they just jump straight into it, so they aren't going to understand what the point of libraries are or how to make use of them. For example, when someone on here wants to replace a piece of text within a string with another piece of text, their instant reaction is to try to do it themselves. If that doesn't work, they go on the forums and ask how to do it. They don't go "oh, I need a string replace function, I wonder if there is a library out there that provides it". Which is what most proper programmers would do rather than spend time trying to create their own, when someone has already purposely built an efficient library for that purpose.