@LivingSpaceStudios @monsterislandcolonizer @skylar @snappler I have no reason to think notch is a bad programmer, or that he was particularly bad when he was making minecraft

but he also didn't know the game was going to become a bajillion dollar success with infinity mods that people were going to play for eternity, and if he did, I bet he wouldn't have chosen to build it in java

I believe it's also pretty CPU bound