Well; and when it boils down to it, what did Notch even really do for programming in general? Minecraft is incredibly popular and very well made; but in no way

Well; and when it boils down to it, what did Notch even really do for programming in general? Minecraft is incredibly popular and very well made; but in no ways is it revolutionary or game-changing for the industry in the way Wolf3D or DOOM was. There is essentially the game industry before and after DOOM. Quake, similarly; changed the game; and, in fact - the engines for Quake/II and DOOM/II would go on to be the engine behind a quite massive quantity of games in the 90’s. And then there’s Carmack’s massive contribution to FOSS by allowing us inside the code to learn how the craziness was constructed... Honestly, there are only a handful of people in the world who even had the chance to make that kind of impact.