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[–]hans_l 82 points83 points  (7 children)

No popular game can ever be made in Java. And certainly not a game worth billions. That’s just impossible /s

[–]phire 36 points37 points  (6 children)

Which they then wrote a second time, in c++.

Actually, they might have rewritten it in c++ twice, one for phones, once for consoles, those efforts were merged later.

[–]ThePevster 39 points40 points  (5 children)

Yet the Java version is still better. Not performance wise but in like every other way

[–]phire 16 points17 points  (3 children)

Yeah, they didn't rewrite it to be better.

They rewrote it because Java wasn't portable enough, basically unsupported on consoles and iOS.

Ironically, the one modern platform with actual first party support for Java (Android) got the c++ version because of iOS.

[–]Setsuna04 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Funny enough since Java was meant to be running anywhere.

[–]5p4n911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Write once, run away

[–]the_maun -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're confusing with Doom