dumb question, solved myself.

[bronze steppe]

dumb question, solved myself.

[indigo crane]

bruh can you tell us what the question was and your solution

so others can learn

[bronze steppe]

it was a question, not a problem

here i'll rewrite it:

i was wondering why oop was usually done with metatables, rather than just cloning a table, since metatables are generally slower.

i realized that the reason was because cloning the tables would create multiple of the same exact same function, taking up more memory. aswell as the performance boost this being very very very insignificant. (assuming you're not creating more than 1 of the object, after that it would take up more memory anyway)

[indigo crane]

how is oop done with metatables

can you explain

this seems really interesting

[bronze steppe]

using the __index metamethod?

[indigo crane]

i'm sorry can you explain this please

[bronze steppe]

do some research on metatables

i'll just give you the basics rq

metatables are essientally just fancy tables

they're created with

setmetatable(tbl, metatable)

a metatable is just another table with 'metamethods'

metamethods are used for custom functionality

there's metamethods for things like addition, converting to a string, etc

here's the docs if you wanna have a read https://create.roblox.com/docs/luau/metatables

[fierce valve]

im pretty sure the main reason is because most programmers are old

since lua isnt oop, metatables are used to mimic it

without a metatable, it would work the same but it wouldnt be similar enough to oop to be considered oop

if that makes sense

https://youtu.be/-E_L6-Yo8yQ?si=GvobVNHQ2u8wKu5Q