RustCraft: Porting Minecraft rd-132211 to Rust
Clara Porting rd-132211 to Rust: First Blood In which we translate 1,562 lines of 2009-era Java into modern Rust with a GPU rendering stack, learn that “up” is a matter of…
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RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft rd-132328 — The First Zombies
The First Mob: Analyzing Minecraft rd-132328 Six hours after inventing the voxel world, Notch populated it. On May 13, 2009, Markus “Notch” Persson released rd-132211 — the earliest known build…
RustCraft: Porting Minecraft rd-132328 to Rust
Porting rd-132328 to Rust: The Entity Extraction In which we discover that translating Java inheritance to Rust composition is less about fighting the borrow checker and more about deciding how…
RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft rd-20090515 — It’s Minecraft Now
It’s Minecraft Now: Analyzing rd-20090515 The biggest single-version delta in Minecraft’s early history, and the one where it gets its name. One day after the first zombie stumbled across a…
RustCraft: Analyzing Minecraft rd-132211 — Where It All Began
Archaeology of a Phenomenon: Analyzing Minecraft rd-132211 The best-selling video game of all time started as 1,562 lines of Java in a 26KB JAR file. On May 13, 2009, Markus…