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Soon enough it'll read email [_] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski%27s_La...
One of my favorite easter eggs in Nethack was the way a Mailer Daemon would arrive in-game and deliver a scroll when you received an email on the host Unix system. Which then became a game exploit because there were some obscure in-game uses for the scroll items.
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I'm sure it already can with the right mod/plugin.
I’m delighted to get to introduce you to ComputerCraft: Tweaked (modern fork). https://tweaked.cc/ Email client and server in Lua https://github.com/GabrielleAkers/cc-email The whole project is a great way to get started with understanding computers, programming, and networking in an environment that appeals to the iPad generation- one that knows less about technology than its predecessors. It’s about making computer…
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If both sides are willing to do that, why didn't they do that the first time instead of creating Minecraft PE?
PE was created in a time where phones were VERY unimpressive when it came to compute
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> I'm always wondering whether or not SDL would be better SDL supports mobile; GLFW doesn't. Maybe they're unifying codebases between the platforms. Edit: BTW SDL3 still works even on Android 4.2. I made an app using it and ImGui, without any Java.
Highly doubt it. The current mobile version (Minecraft bedrock) is the version that Microsoft wants everyone to use. Java edition only sticks around because they know it's the version most of the community wants.
I'm teaching my son python programming. Anyone with experience on programming Minecraft with python? Tips?
Is the rationale for switching away from GLFW documented anywhere? I'd love to read about it, I have some projects which use GLFW myself and I'm always wondering whether or not SDL would be better
SDL is more of a "platform" you can use anywhere. It includes literally everything you'd want from the OS layer (windowing, graphics, audio, input, network code, threads) whereas GLFW is just windowing, graphics context and input, you need to bring your own audio, network code and threading library. Not a big deal for some but SDL does do more... Plus it's even more portable than GLFW.
Is the rationale for switching away from GLFW documented anywhere? I'd love to read about it, I have some projects which use GLFW myself and I'm always wondering whether or not SDL would be better
You could make an entire 2D game using the SDL API without OpenGL/vulkan.
I honestly went and read those release notes just to check if they're using this transition as an excuse to make the game less cross platform.
Anyone got any advice for a techy dad with no (zero) Minecraft experience who wants to set up a Minecraft server for the family in 2026? Kids right now are playing on their iPads, and (sometimes) old macbooks/windows PCs.
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Minecraft started on Java, a massive mod and server community created around it. Consoles won't run JIT/JVM/Java, so the Bedrock C++ version was created. People don't want to give up the massive mod community, so OG pc players stay on Java, while console players and newer PC players go to bedrock (with some of those PC players jumping over to Java after servers or mods are discovered). They almost have feature parity…
It's absolutely crazy that a game so popular - let alone any game - was originally written in Java. Why did notch do that? There were next to no libraries, ecosystem, or support for Java at the time. It was such a bizarre choice. Not to mention the JVM, GC, and all the other oddities. It was super off the beaten path to have done this. Might as well have been Ruby or Perl.