Revit REX vs Plug in

[Matias_Halac]

Good morning! I'm new to Revit programming through the SDK. When installing the SDK I find the REX tool. I read the example of the extension that creates a pyramid and I see that it has great advantages such as saving information, and a predefined layout that speeds up tasks. My doubt is if there is a difference with the plug-ins for Revit. Has advantages to use the REX? or rex is in disuse.
Finally, I would like to know if all the features and advantages of REX can be implemented with a plug in. Thank you very much!!

[jeremytammik]

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/rex/

[Matias_Halac]

Jeremy, thanks for the answer!

I´ve been reading your page about REX and its really interesting.

What is your recommendation on what tecnology (I dont know how to put it) to follow and implement. I mean, time is never unlimited to study and I would like to spend time learing one of all posibilities for developing my own aplications that runs in Revit. The possibilities that I mention as far as I know are: WPF, macros inside Revit, add ins develop in Visual Studio with C#, REX. Pherhaps Im kite lost, but which of these would you recomend me to follow in order to cover all aplication cases.

Thaks again!!

[jeremytammik]

'All application cases' is a very wide bill indeed.

Personally, I focus exclusively on Revit add-ins in C#. I know (almost) nothing about WPF, or REX, or Revit macros. On the other hand, I have no application case, either.

If you are a beginner, I would start with Revit macros, or Dynamo, or pyRevit.

If you want to learn programming, I would start with Python, not the Revit API.

I would forget about 'all application cases' and focus on one single application case to begin with.