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Microsoft didn't rewrite Minecraft in C++. It was rewritten in C++ by 4J Studios that were contracted to do so by Mojang in order to bring Minecraft to the cons
by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Microsoft didn't rewrite Minecraft in C++. It was rewritten in C++ by 4J Studios that were contracted to do so by Mojang in order to bring Minecraft to the consoles. Microsoft did create the Windows 10 edition and likely reused a lot of the code developed by 4J Studios.
- pjmlp 8y agoFaire enough, but the reasoning was still lack of Java compiler support and Microsoft's decision to keep one codebase instead of two parallel ones.