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Browsercraft: Java Minecraft in the browser

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161 points John7878781 | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 14:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.49s | source
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OsrsNeedsf2P ◴[31 Mar 25 17:29 UTC] No.43537507[source]▶
The fact I'm playing this at 20 FPS on Firefox with a RX 7600 shows how much web browsers have regressed in 10 years, not how much they've advanced.
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piperswe ◴[31 Mar 25 18:25 UTC] No.43538076[source]▶
Minecraft back in the day was a Java applet, so the game was running in a native JVM. This demo is running the game in a WebAssembly JVM, so performance is absolutely going to suffer. If the game were actually written for the web platform, it would perform significantly better.
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1. kulahan ◴[31 Mar 25 20:17 UTC] No.43539430[source]▶
This is a 20-ish year old game. It really shouldn’t matter.
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2. ◴[31 Mar 25 23:11 UTC] No.43540994[source]▶