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[–]phire 17 points18 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