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Being written in Java was probably instrumental in enabling the huge modding community around Minecraft. Which in turn was probably in large part responsible fo

• mike_hearn 2y ago
  And more to the point for this thread, writing it in Java let Notch build and iterate extremely quickly. Minecraft originally came out of a 24 hour game writing competition in which most competitors were using C++, but Notch always used Java because coding speed was the most critical thing in that context.
• neonsunset 2y ago
  It should have been written in C#, instead, the developers had to resort to silly optimization tricks that often never transpired.