Task.spawn vs spawn

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#1

Which one is better is any one better?

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#2

Task.spawn is far better

Task is a new library that should be used instead of spawn, (a lot of things, such as speed benchmarks etc…)

Always try to use task library instead of other functions like wait() spawn() etc

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#3

task.spawn is better since it returns a thread value (spawn does not) which you can use to cancel the ‘task’ at your own discretion.

local function f()
	while true do
		print("Hello world!")
		task.wait(1)
	end
end

local t = task.spawn(f)
task.wait(3)
task.cancel(t)
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#4

What exactly is a thread value?

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#5

One of Lua’s eight native types.
https://www.lua.org/pil/9.html
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/lua-docs/coroutine

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#6

A “function”

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