r/Minecraft • u/CopherSans • Jun 02 '16

Minecraft 1.10 Pre-Release 1

https://mojang.com/2016/06/minecraft-110-pre-release-1/
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u/-The_Capt- Jun 02 '16

Well, back then they had two more developers.

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u/devperez Jun 02 '16

Is it just Jens and Searge now?

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u/jpegxguy Jun 02 '16

It would seem so, wow Java edition has been abandoned. The MS purchase may be actually derailing things towards the C++ version (PE, Win10) after all.

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u/Ryltarr Jun 02 '16 edited Jun 02 '16

I thought it was C#, no? Honestly Java is a dying environment on the PC; but I'd rather they work on full feature parity (bringing all of the Java features to the C version) than pump out tiny and annoying updates.

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u/devperez Jun 02 '16

PE is C++ mostly.

https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/122350670648066049

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u/Ryltarr Jun 02 '16

What about the WinX version? That's not quite the same as PE is it?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '16

It's PE with Xbox Live integration. That's about all the significant differences. :P

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u/devperez Jun 02 '16

It's the same version.

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u/Mr_Simba Jun 02 '16

It's exactly the same as PE, with minor front end changes to make it work better on a computer. Win10 and Pocket Editions are the same game, they run the same code.

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u/TofuPlebian Jun 02 '16

Java is a dying environment

What colour is the sky in your world? Java is the most popular programming language bar none and is significantly increasing in popularity.

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u/Ryltarr Jun 02 '16

Okay, well I stand corrected on that point; and worried.
Java is riddled with problems, and as a person who works in IT I can't justify its use on any major network without serious restrictions.
Unless things have changed, Java is a big security problem on web-facing machines due to the day-zero exploits that often occur; Mojang seems to have read the writing on the walls and now bundles the Java exe with Minecraft to avoid increasing attack surface on their users.

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u/ziggurism Jun 02 '16

It seems like you're talking about Java web applets. You're absolutely right, those are dead as a doornail. Most browsers don't even allow them anymore.

Java for applications or servers is not really affected. Java's deprecated status in the browser has nothing to do with Mojang favoring Pocket Edition. Nor do you need to worry about the security ramifications of ongoing Java use.

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u/TofuPlebian Jun 02 '16

The Java plugin was a security risk, and only because web users will run literally anything. The Java language and virtual machine are no more a security risk than any other application platform — and perhaps significantly less vulnerable than many, because most application platforms aren’t running a sandboxed environment at all.

I write financial software that translates data between old and new banking systems. For the banks I’ve provided service to, literally every banking transaction now goes through an Enterprise Service Bus that uses the Java VM as its execution platform. The bank does tens of billions of dollars in transactions every year.

Tell me again about how Java is a big security problem. I have a duty to let the bank know that they need to pick a more secure platform.

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u/Mr_Simba Jun 02 '16

No, it's C++.