Can you play ESF on the Source engine?
No.
Will ESF ever move to the Source engine?
No.
Welcome to the forums CronusZA, and yes. You are correct. The question you have asked is already in the
F.A.Q Thread (Frequently Asked Questions).
Here is a quote of the questions and the answers that is located in the F.A.Q Thread:
Do the most reason is that it takes up way to many time to move the current ESF code to the Source Engine, they have to learn the new code, and change a lot of their own ESF code.
Perhaps it MAY happen later on, but i doubt thats any time soon.
If i were you however, check out the sticky threads that is spreaded on these forums, that will help you with mostly all the questions you might have:
How to install ESF
Frequently Asked Questions
Newbies Guide to the ESF Forums
Of course, in the
ESF Chat Section , you can
discuss about the new ESF version v1.3 that still has to come out. I hope i gave you enough information on your question, even though i did expanded the answer a bit