Discord.py – which way should I pick? [closed]

Recently I’ve known that developers are able to code Discord.py bot in 2 ways (or even more):

1. To code every command as if message.content.startswith("hello"):
2. Or to code every command as async def hello(ctx):

So, which type is more productive and better? Thank you

Answer

If you need commands, use the commands extension. Docs: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/commands.html

Why should I use the commands extension?

• Prevents spaghetti code
• Better performance
• Easy handling and processing of command arguments
• Argument type converters
• Easy subcommands
• Command cooldowns
• Built-in help function
• Easy prefix management
• Command checks, for controlling when they’re to be invoked
• Ability to add command modules via extensions/cogs
• Still able to do everything you can do with the first way