Are language files for plugins no longer supported?

Kirby 3 Questions 🤔
1

I was looking into updating some Kirby 2 plugin and noticed that the Kirby 3 plugins I was looking at, all had their language translations stuffed into the Kirby::plugin(...) function.

Are language files that are placed into the sub-directory site/plugins/<name>/languages no longer supported, or are there other advantages for having the translations in the plugin file itself?

2

Can’t even remember how it was done in KIrby 2. But in Kirby 3 you extend the translations: https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/plugins/extensions/translations. Since the translations are only an array, you can, of course, but them into a return array in separate files, similar to what is described here: https://getkirby.com/docs/cookbook/i18n/language-variables