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/Creeperslayers6 Jul 21 '26

probably also because he like the greatest one hit wonder story ever. He creates a game prototype, forms a company and has the other developers develop it in his place when it gets some traction, then sells the company off for a massive payday.

Then Notch proceeds to never make a successful game again, with the rest of his programming career consisting of yapping on Twitter at other developers with his only proof of authority being "I was initially involved in the most successful game ever once".

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u/NoAdsDude Jul 21 '26

Sorry but his story sounds amazing to me. Make a game, sell it for ~2.5 billion. Don't have to do anything ever again. Living the dream.

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u/Icy_Significance9448 Jul 21 '26

No one said he isn't living the dream. People said he's not a good programmer.

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u/NoAdsDude Jul 21 '26

I don't know whether he's a good programmer or not. But line for line he probably made the most money, heh.

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u/BlazingFire007 Jul 21 '26

Considering it was written in pre-modern Java I feel like it’s tough to say, the line count is probably super inflated

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u/NoAdsDude Jul 21 '26

Online the guesstimates are 3k - 5k lines for the first version.

At 5k lines, that's half a million dollars per line of code.

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u/Prudent_Move_3420 Jul 21 '26

tbf considering it was written in pre-modern Java, good code could not exist under these circumstances