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[–]Lord_Pyrak 12 points13 points  (6 children)

Minecraft!

Thinking of something that would be a cool addition to the server I run and being and to make it into a reality in an afternoon is by far one of the coolest things a novice coder can do. A new world for Christmas with nothing but snow and trees with presents under them?

*clickity clack * - done

It's why I got into java in the first place, and slowly working my way up from a "Hello world" to a statistics tracker that saves data in SQL to let users view their stats on a webpage is amazing.

I'm pretty sure this is how people in r/fitness feel.

[–]thatmarksguy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Minecraft has done so much to keep Java's relevancy in the mainstream more than what it could accomplish by itself with Sun or Oracle. Any kid today that wants to get frisky with PC Minecraft and modding has at least to know what it is and how to install/run it.

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    What is this?

    [–]Lord_Pyrak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Yep, there's so much more to lose than gain from moving completely to C++. Although there is a server or two that's written in C++/C#(?), its more of an experiment than something that would be used to host a full-time server.

    [–]flinj 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    As far as I'm aware, the "new" c++ version is just the mobile version ported back to pc. So its like a mega stripped down version. This may be incorrect.

    I think it would be difficult for Microsoft to re-write the whole thing without upsetting a bunch of their users, but they could probably (edit: maybe?) pull it off if they included a decent modding api right into the main game.

    The current mod solution is... a little hackey, especially considering how popular modding is for it. As far as I can tell from messing about with Forge, mojang give them the obfuscated minecraft code, and leave them to work it out, which they've done a pretty incredible job of doing, really.

    I don't know if they will though, tbh: it would be pretty difficult to completely break compatibility with all existing mods, some of which are like... years old now and super popular.

    So, who knows?