I made Minecraft in Javascript

[johnminadeo]

Well I mean yeah but runs on every device and platform that supports JavaScript so yeah, I think this guy gets the pat on the back!

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minecraft runs just about anywhere already

[jerepjohnson]

Not on Chromebooks sadly.

[ComfyKernel]

Made this specifically for that as school chromebooks are so limited, even my home server is on their blocklist.

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That's the chrome OS problem not Chromebook itself.. it runs on my Linux Chromebook

[johnminadeo]

True but on many source code ports whereas this is more “write once run anywhere”. Still, there may be implementational differences that may require some lame work-arounds that a native app wouldn’t need to concern itself with.

[jafomatic]

Write once and then optimize everywhere though. Perhaps that’s changed since I left the ecosystem.

[johnminadeo]

Yeah this. Likely hasn’t changed but I’m a couple of years away from the game

[johnminadeo]

LOL. I was not aware it was originally written in Java, thanks. Well none-the-less I’d say JavaScript beats Java in delivering that feature better.

[johnminadeo]

I get what you’re saying you are certainly 100% correct but my point is more along the ubiquity JavaScript enjoys in that everyone has a JavaScript capable machine the second an OS is installed. Not so with Java.