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advantages.</p>
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<li><a href="#rojo-at-rdc-2019">Rojo at RDC 2019</a></li>
<li><a href="#external-text-editors">External Text Editors</a></li>
<li><a href="#version-control">Version Control</a></li>
<li><a href="#typescript">TypeScript</a></li>
<li><a href="#other-tools">Other Tools</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="rojo-at-rdc-2019">Rojo at RDC 2019<a class="headerlink" href="#rojo-at-rdc-2019" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
<p>Nathan Riemer (Kampfkarren) gave a talk at RDC 2019 talking about some of the benefits of using a tool like Rojo.</p>
<iframe style="margin: 0 auto; max-width: 100%" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/czlvzEyhaBc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<h2 id="external-text-editors">External Text Editors<a class="headerlink" href="#external-text-editors" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
<p>Rojo opens the door to use the absolute best text editors in the world and their rich plugin ecosystems.</p>
<p>Some very popular editors include <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com">Visual Studio Code</a> and <a href="https://www.sublimetext.com">Sublime Text</a>.</p>
<p>These advanced text editors have features like multi-cursor editing, go-to symbol, multi-file regex find and replace, bookmarks and much more.</p>
<p>Many Rojo VS Code users also use extensions like:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmaranthineCodices.vscode-rbxlua">vscode-rbxlua</a></li>
<li><a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Kampfkarren.roblox-lua-autofills">Roblox Lua Autocompletes</a></li>
<li><a href="https://tabnine.com">TabNine</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="version-control">Version Control<a class="headerlink" href="#version-control" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
<p>By building your game (or just the scripts) as individual files on the filesystem, it becomes easy to start using professional-grade version control tools like <a href="https://git-scm.com">Git</a> and <a href="https://github.com">GitHub</a>.</p>
<p>Hundreds of thousands of companies and individual developers use Git to version their software projects. With Rojo, Roblox developers can take advantage of the best collaboration tool around.</p>
<p>Using a repository hosting service like GitHub or GitLab brings powerful features to Roblox developers like code reviews and issue tracking that professional engineers can't live without.</p>
<h2 id="typescript">TypeScript<a class="headerlink" href="#typescript" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
<p>TypeScript enables static type safety, which helps prevent typos and adds unparalleled autocompletion. It also brings features like arrow functions, object destructuring, functional programming methods, and more!</p>
<p>With Rojo, you can use <a href="https://roblox-ts.github.io">roblox-ts</a> to compile TypeScript to Lua and take advantage of a huge ecosystem of TypeScript tooling.</p>
<p>It's also possible to use other languages that compile to Lua like <a href="https://moonscript.org">MoonScript</a> and <a href="https://haxe.org">Haxe</a>.</p>
<h2 id="other-tools">Other Tools<a class="headerlink" href="#other-tools" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
<p>There are decades of excellent tools available that operate on files. With Rojo, it's possible to take advantage of any of them!</p>
<p>Popular tools include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck">luacheck</a>, a static analysis tool to help you write better Lua</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep">ripgrep</a>, an extremely fast code search tool</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei">Tokei</a>, a tool for statistics like lines of code</li>
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