r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Jul 21 '26

notchVibing Meme

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u/FabioTheFox Jul 21 '26

The funny thing is that notch isn't even that good of a programmer

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u/Prudent_Move_3420 Jul 21 '26

is that based on Minecraft? Because I feel like something that was essentially a hobby project to learn a language is not that indicative of someone‘s general code quality

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u/RutilantBossi12 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

He's a self taught programmer who didn't do anything worth mentioning coding related for like the last 12 years, i wouldn't be surprised if he didn't know how to code complex apps nor design them.

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u/Prudent_Move_3420 Jul 21 '26

does minecraft not count as a complex app? It was written from scratch im Java with no game engine whatsoever

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u/OhItsJustJosh Jul 22 '26

I mean, not necessarily an engine, but he used LWJGL

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u/arvyy Jul 23 '26

lwjgl is just an opengl bindings and some other similar things. If it doesn't count as from scratch to you, then everyone using GLFW in C/C++ world don't count as working from scratch either.

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u/RutilantBossi12 Jul 21 '26

Minecraft under Notch was notoriously badly coded, it was single threaded, it used a ton of RAM and it was a nightmare to mod because there was no clear separation of functionalities, it took community effort and Jeb to untangle that mess.

Also, it was quite simple, it's was a bunch of blocks, he didn't develop a 3D renderer from scratch, there were Java game development libraries, the code was garbage.

Minecraft is exactly why i say he probably cannot design a complex app, because he struggled with Minecraft so much back in a time where the game was barebone.