Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust

Just waiting for Minecraft to be so reverse engineered as to be its own protocol with multiple server and client implementations that just work.

it already is, the entire protocol is reverse engineered, there are tools to automatically deobfuscate the code and there is already a full reimplementation of minecraft that also supports servers

If that's the case, how come nobody seems to be writing improved Minecraft clients?

Ever since I started playing it in the beta days I've been frustrated with how poorly Minecraft performs relative to what it's showing on the screen. (Not that that stopped me from pouring hundreds of hours into the damn thing.)