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419 points alex_medvedev | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 09:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.305s | source
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kgeist ◴[15 Oct 24 15:57 UTC] No.41849906[source]▶
What does "modern" mean in this context?
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alex_medvedev ◴[15 Oct 24 16:04 UTC] No.41849987[source]▶
Its written from the ground up and has a clean foundation (which is not the case in vanilla minecraft server code). We also want to use cool modern features like multi-threading or the rust language which is a modern language designed to fix mistakes from older languages
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philipwhiuk ◴[15 Oct 24 16:35 UTC] No.41850348[source]▶
> cool modern features like multi-threading

Java 6 had multi-threading

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xxs ◴[16 Oct 24 12:30 UTC] No.41858320[source]▶
java 1.0 (even 0.9) did have. The 1st language with a memory model was java 5 (1.5), which was back ported to 1.4.2. 1.4(.2) already had non-blocking I/O as well.

Why pick 6, though?

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1. philipwhiuk ◴[20 Oct 24 21:23 UTC] No.41898590[source]▶
I just picked an old enough version that I knew had it and the original Minecraft could have chosen to use.

(I've never written pre Java 6 code)