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I've seen lots of work on alternate Minecraft servers; has anyone worked on an open Minecraft client (obviously not named "Minecraft" for trademark reasons, but compatible with the network protocol)?
But Notch didn't like seeing alternative clients, so I removed it from the game.
Also, see http://wiki.vg/Client_List
Seriuosly interested, why is Node.js better suited as a gameserver than say C or Java ? What exactly are you doing on the serverside? Is it an authorative setup or are you just passing position messages around (in which cases huge amounts of players wouldnt be suprising) ? Did you reverse engineer minecrafts multiplayer protocol or is this an alternate implementation? EDIT just looked it up and it seems like the mine…
Sure, Java or C will be much faster at any computational work. And I am no node.js fan-boi. But doing actual asynchronous local-file IO in C is non-trivial, and if their server is not CPU bound, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with using node.js. Could you also use libuv from C? Sure.
That is far from clear. I've been using nodejs for some computational work using https://github.com/substack/gamma.js and https://github.com/niggler/bessel and found that the JS version is faster than the straightforward Java implementation.
I've seen lots of work on alternate Minecraft servers; has anyone worked on an open Minecraft client (obviously not named "Minecraft" for trademark reasons, but compatible with the network protocol)?
There are a couple projects in this direction (I looked into trying to make a bot at one point). Unfortunately, any names have slipped my memory at this point. But be assured, they exist.
Seriuosly interested, why is Node.js better suited as a gameserver than say C or Java ? What exactly are you doing on the serverside? Is it an authorative setup or are you just passing position messages around (in which cases huge amounts of players wouldnt be suprising) ? Did you reverse engineer minecrafts multiplayer protocol or is this an alternate implementation? EDIT just looked it up and it seems like the mine…
Seriuosly interested, why is Node.js better suited as a gameserver than say C or Java ? What exactly are you doing on the serverside? Is it an authorative setup or are you just passing position messages around (in which cases huge amounts of players wouldnt be suprising) ? Did you reverse engineer minecrafts multiplayer protocol or is this an alternate implementation? EDIT just looked it up and it seems like the mine…
Sure, Java or C will be much faster at any computational work. And I am no node.js fan-boi. But doing actual asynchronous local-file IO in C is non-trivial, and if their server is not CPU bound, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with using node.js. Could you also use libuv from C? Sure.
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Sure, Java or C will be much faster at any computational work. And I am no node.js fan-boi. But doing actual asynchronous local-file IO in C is non-trivial, and if their server is not CPU bound, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with using node.js. Could you also use libuv from C? Sure.
"Java or C will be much faster at any computational work" That is far from clear. I've been using nodejs for some computational work using https://github.com/substack/gamma.js and https://github.com/niggler/bessel and found that the JS version is faster than the straightforward Java implementation.
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
In the linked benchmarks, V8 only has a decided advantage executing regexes.
[1] http://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/1018151-mine...
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Sure, Java or C will be much faster at any computational work. And I am no node.js fan-boi. But doing actual asynchronous local-file IO in C is non-trivial, and if their server is not CPU bound, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with using node.js. Could you also use libuv from C? Sure.
"Java or C will be much faster at any computational work" That is far from clear. I've been using nodejs for some computational work using https://github.com/substack/gamma.js and https://github.com/niggler/bessel and found that the JS version is faster than the straightforward Java implementation.