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The performance of the Java version of Minecraft is so terrible that the entire game had to be rewritten to be played on consoles. Minecraft was not popular be
by bzb3 6y ago
The performance of the Java version of Minecraft is so terrible that the entire game had to be rewritten to be played on consoles.
Minecraft was not popular because of Java, Minecraft was popular despite Java.
- wing-_-nuts 6y agoI strongly disagree. A big part of minecraft's popularity is due to it's mods scene, and it's mod scene is so successful because modders could decompile minecraft's classes and build a deep understanding of how minecraft works under the hood.
- the_af 6y agoThat's highly debatable, not a point of fact. And the rest of the apps from the article? Are they also successful "despite Java"? At which point are you willing to admit that maybe Java was suitable for general purpose programming? Which amount of evidence would convince you?
- bzb3 6y agoWhat's debatable, that the Java version of Minecraft had terrible performance or that the console ports are not written in Java? About your other question: I only mentioned Minecraft.
- recursive 6y agoThe point that's debatable is the point you led with, that Minecraft "had" to be re-written because of poor performance. Not that it was.
- pjmlp 6y agoThe game had to be rewritten because Microsoft is a C++ shop and game consoles SDKs don't support Java, and it was definitely easier to port the game to C++ than to create Java AOT compilers for game consoles.