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I think Minecraft was originally written in Java and rewritten in a good programming language (i.e. not Java).

• grumpyprole 2y ago
  Whether or not one thinks C++ is a "good" language, I always thought that (original) Minecraft busted the myth that blockbuster games had to be written in C++.
• CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
  Being written in Java was probably instrumental in enabling the huge modding community around Minecraft. Which in turn was probably in large part responsible for its success.
  • mike_hearn 2y ago
    And more to the point for this thread, writing it in Java let Notch build and iterate extremely quickly. Minecraft originally came out of a 24 hour game writing competition in which most competitors were using C++, but Notch always used Java because coding speed was the most critical thing in that context.
  • neonsunset 2y ago
    It should have been written in C#, instead, the developers had to resort to silly optimization tricks that often never transpired.