SourceMod’s Scripting Framework can potentially adapt to many languages. How does this work out in terms of us supporting them?
C++ is the “official” native language of SourceMod. It’s also how we’re writing the base admin plugin.
The official supported scripting language is “JavaScript”, implemented by Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey. The MetaEngine for it, and the associated base connector and documentation, will be maintained by developer Blaubaer.
Finally, we’ve made a MetaEngine for “AMX/Small”. The core of this is a direct copy from AMX Mod X, so things like error tracing will remain the same. This is considered DEPRECATED and UNSUPPORTED. As Manip posted a few entries ago, he is the official maintainer for it, giving him a chance to play around with some new ideas.
On another note, you may remember the specialized plugin forums from www.amxmodx.org – I’m hoping to somehow acquire a vBulletin license (maybe some kind soul will donate one or money for one 
), because there’s no way in hell I’m rewriting those hacks for phpBB again – the codebase is absolutely awful. It would also give me (or rather: Freecode) a chance to port our almost-ugly SourceMod theme. That’s up in the air though, but it would be nice to have good forum software before the first major release.
vBulletin is hella expensive, $160 for one forum? And I don’t see the added advantage either. PHPBB is an extremely good forum and costs nothing.
You apparently haven’t used it admin-side
Furthermore, the code to phpBB is really ugly. vB is quite well known for its modability; phpBB is difficult to mod/extend and overall I’ve been very dissatisfied with it.
You’re right about one thing, I haven’t used it admin side but I still think it is a lot of money to spend on something which should be free.
I say if you got the money you should go for it. vBulletin is the better forums code to be working with from a coder style standpoint and an Admin standpoint. I myself had to go with phpBB becasue of money issues. I would agree that phpBB sucks for admin usages, but I think it is just a challenge to mod it better.
That and I would wait cause phpBB is going to be releasing there new 3.0 verion very soon this month, and from what I here it is going to be a huge change for admin functionality, and secuity issues they have been having with 2.0.9 or lower.
Just my 2 cents.