[asterisk-users] What do you use? .conf or AEL?

[Terry Wilson]

> Of course you should be using Lua.

I really have to try that sometime

> tAt the same time, traditional ".conf" dialplans
> are not going away anytime soon, and you do not lose any functionality
> vs AEL and Lua.

My reason for sticking with .conf files so far?  "dialplan show" -- it  
is easier (perhaps because I am used to it) to debug when what I see  
on the CLI matches 1 to 1 with what my dialplan shows.

>  So trying to pick one over another is very similar to
> the problem of picking one programming language over another (e.g.   
> "Is
> python better then ruby?").

That isn't hard, it's python!
(or ruby)