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Hi, so from my understanding and research simba is based on pascal and pascalscript. Is simba used for anything else other than runescape bots? How popular is pascal compared to other languages like c++ or java. Where are its applied if you have any example, and what might be some advantage of using pascal over other language or disadvantages.

Is it possible to write a rs bot with javascript in someway with HTML5, anyone tried it yet? :D

Advantages/Disadvantages:

For me, one disadvantage is the wordiness of the language. There's a lot more typing and it is a lot more time consuming than Java. It is however very EASY to read and understand for beginners coming from any language.

You'll get lots of opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of it. It's easy to find so I won't bother listing them.


Job-wise:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Is-there-demand-Delphi-developers-3398140.S.5871813501294489602?qid=6da05c93-73b0-4a8e-b254-0145479aae56&trk=groups_items_see_more-0-b-ttl


The answer is plain and simply: No. I've yet to see actual companies coding in pascal and not just having it as a basic skill requirement.

Workopolis: http://www.workopolis.com/jobsearch/delphi-jobs
Monster (CA): http://jobsearch.monster.ca/jobs/?q=delphi&cy=ca
Monster (US): http://jobsearch.monster.ca/jobs/?q=pascal&cy=us

That's 6 unique companies offering jobs with the search words: "Delphi"; 2 unique companies offering jobs with the search words: "Pascal": http://www.workopolis.com/jobsearch/find-jobs#lg=EN&ak=%7Cpascal%7C&st=RELEVANCE&lr=50&ihs=true&lsc=

These are for Canadian results. There are barely more results for the US but a LOT of them just require basic knowledge of it. It's not actual jobs where you code in pascal at all.


You will much quicker find a job in Java. Especially for mobile development. All in all, pascal is nice for a beginner language but has little real world use (other than the concepts/knowledge you gain from it).

Example: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/HIRING-URGENT-NEED-JAVA-DEVELOPERS-3398140.S.5902133361123557378?view=&item=5902133361123557378 and there are many more like this..


As for the Javascript bot.. I don't know.. Pretty sure there was one for HTML5 already.

From: toxjq

Is it possible to write a rs bot with javascript in someway with HTML5, anyone tried it yet? :D

Someone has infact, take a look at this thread.

thanks guys the answers has been really helpful :) just wrote my first chicken killer in java :)