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TheRPGAdventurer

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Minecraft was initially written by someone learning Java. Plenty of early code written by Notch still exists in the game. An example is the IInventory system or the Block -> TileEntity system (There are about 3 ways of doing the same thing). IMO the class-based entity system also leaves a lot to be desired.

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"If it ain't broke don't fix it". It works for vanilla.

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On 3/3/2019 at 2:22 AM, TheRPGAdventurer said:

And these codes are still left unfixed by the current devs?

Probably.  Something to understand is that a lot of later code is written based on earlier code and rewriting earlier code to "fix it" can have unforseen consequences and break something completely unrelated creating a much harder to fix problem because fixing what obviously broke because of the fix might require chasing down what actually is causing the new problem somewhere in between the newly written code and what just broke.  Call it a ghost in the machine problem.

 

I imagine they could fix the earlier code, but consider that it took a year to re-code Forge with better code and less clutter and Minecraft is likely a lot more complex than Forge.  I don't want to know how long that re-code would take.

 

So, sometimes, as Cadiboo said, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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On 4/10/2019 at 4:52 PM, digitalNacht said:

Probably.  Something to understand is that a lot of later code is written based on earlier code and rewriting earlier code to "fix it" can have unforseen consequences and break something completely unrelated creating a much harder to fix problem because fixing what obviously broke because of the fix might require chasing down what actually is causing the new problem somewhere in between the newly written code and what just broke.  Call it a ghost in the machine problem.

 

I imagine they could fix the earlier code, but consider that it took a year to re-code Forge with better code and less clutter and Minecraft is likely a lot more complex than Forge.  I don't want to know how long that re-code would take.

 

So, sometimes, as Cadiboo said, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

ghost in the code.... ok that why we have data fixers for fixing items ids for later worlds right?

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