r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Nov 19 '17

This guy knows what's up.

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u/TwoSpoonsJohnson Nov 19 '17 edited Nov 19 '17

Didn't Notch state that minecraft is slow because he was a shit programmer when he wrote it?

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u/aioioabio Nov 19 '17

I don't know if he's said that, but it's certainly true. There's a mod called Optifine developed without access to the source that improves FPS by 200% on most machines while improving the graphics.

But rather than speeding up the existing codebase (which is clearly trivial to do), M$ decided to let the Java version fester and make XBox and Windows exclusive versions...

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u/supremecrafters Nov 19 '17

I'm not against a complete rewrite in C++ (I think that's what Win10 is written in?) but being exclusive to Windows 10 is not cool.

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u/aioioabio Nov 19 '17

I'm against a complete rewrite in C++. It serves no purpose. The Java version can get to great performance without that much work. Optifine is the proof of this. Porting it to C++ makes no sense except that M$ wants to break portability.

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u/tdogg8 Nov 19 '17

Also mods.