Instance.new() won't work

[nicknickphoenix (RoughinIt_Dev)]

The script is pretty simple, it should just put a proximity prompt on the player. However, it doesn’t work.
My script is:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	Instance.new("ProximityPrompt",player.Character)
end)

[beneathwintersky (jssr)]

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr) 
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char) 
		local Proximity = Instance.new("ProximityPrompt")
		Proximity.Parent = char
	end)
end)

Don’t use the parent argument of Instance.new, it will slow down your scripts.

PSA: Don't use Instance.new() with parent argument

I’ve discovered a pretty bad performance issue in one of top games that has to do with Instance.new and wanted to write about this, since this is not obvious unless you know the system inside out. Tthere are several ways to create a ROBLOX object in Lua: local obj = Instance.new(‘type’); fill obj fields local obj = Instance.new(‘type’, parent); fill obj fields local obj = util.Create(‘type’, { field1 = value1, … }) If you care at all about performance, please only use the first option - I wi…