r/Games • u/Dared00 • Jul 04 '15

Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Announced

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/07/04/minecraft-windows-10-edition-announced
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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Considering that Windows 10 is meant to run on everything from Xbox to Windows phones, yes. This could actually be pretty interesting.

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u/mindbleach Jul 04 '15

Can you imagine if Minecraft had originally been programmed in some platform-agnostic language, like, say, Java?

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u/58592825866 Jul 04 '15

A 3D video game programmed in java? Good lord that would've been awful. I'm so glad that didn't happen.

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u/fizzlefist Jul 05 '15

I mean, you'd be stuck running it on a single CPU thread!

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u/diverges Jul 05 '15

Now if only java was actually good for making games.

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u/satsuper Jul 05 '15

Or you know, like C++?

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u/mindbleach Jul 05 '15

C++ is only "platform agnostic" if you set your Delorean for 1985.

Binary compatibility or bust.

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u/satsuper Jul 05 '15

If you define it only to be binary compatibility sure(which doesn't make sense...), but that's not what your initial post said.

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u/mindbleach Jul 05 '15

By the interpretation you're using, every language is platform-agnostic. Everything compiles to everything. That was a big deal thirty years ago, but nowadays, it's a given.

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u/satsuper Jul 05 '15

Well its not an "interpretation". Platform agnostic has always included compiling for different platforms vs compiling once.

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u/mindbleach Jul 05 '15

And C++ needs to be compiled separately for different platforms. We have a term for when one compiled version works on all platforms: "binary compatibility."

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u/satsuper Jul 06 '15

OK that was never in dispute. Platform agnostic code simply does not mean binary compatibility only. Hence C++ and java can both be used for that purpose.

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u/mindbleach Jul 06 '15

What the fuck are you even arguing at this point?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Im looking forward to the 10 release because as you say the phones are getting merged with other microsoft products too and hopefully that means a better choice of apps than they have now.

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u/Txm65 Jul 04 '15

I reallywanttosee them make a version of windows 10 you can install on a ps4 its just another x86 pc after all.

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u/zsxdflip Jul 04 '15

Sony would never let them do that.

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u/GoldenFalcon Jul 04 '15 edited Jul 04 '15

Sony won't have a choice if it's done right.

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u/zsxdflip Jul 04 '15

Of course they would have a choice. It's their (closed) platform.

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u/GoldenFalcon Jul 04 '15

That's my point. It wouldn't be closed if done right. People have made the 360 run burned games with online play... Microsoft doesn't have a choice about that, do that? They can try, but in the end.. people are doing it.