Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-108.35.168.58-20170624123521/@comment-25754873-20170626201947

SamwiseFilmore wrote: Ah, reasons proprietary software is the worst thing ever...

There is all this hubbub about whether support will be extended blah blah blah, and that you can only play Windows10 minecraft on windows 10, just because Mojang doesn't feel the need to compile for other platforms (which they could do. Just because they only distribute a windows version doesn't mean they couldn't compile it for mac or linux. The code is almost exactly the same, with a few changes with filesystem interaction). Basically a whole bunch of irritating stuff because the code isn't open-source...

As to Mevans turning this mod into it's own game, MC's code is very complicated, and kinda jumbled and not well written. The engine and the actual game code are pretty much the same thing. Really it would be better to completely re-write the mod for a different voxel game, if that were a path that was something that people wanted to look into.

How long would it take to do this?

Also, I would think that if Mojang found out they would be furious.