Which is a better script format?

[cavedude]

Yes, Perl is officially deprecated in EQEmu. It will not be broken, but developers are not required to port new features to it.

Lua I feel for our needs is vastly superior for scripting. It's lighter and quicker, and KLS has already ported cool features to it that Perl does not have - like the ability to send custom packets.

Now, I am not dissing Perl. I use it for virtually all of my external scripting, minus the occasional bash script. It's my goto language for that. But let's be honest here, Perl is a tank.

For MySQL work, my opinion is that you are better off keeping that in the C++ server code. Its quicker, and far more secure. If you are familiar enough with the Perl syntax, picking up C++ at least in this case is a breeze.

[KLS]

If you use luajit there are some nice easy to use FFI bindings for MySQL. There are some for regular lua too but they're harder to use since you have to compile them.