more portable.. to what ? are we talking of desktop applications here? I can't r...

magpi3 · on May 22, 2022

Minecraft is written in Java.

astrange · on May 23, 2022

It relies on native libraries like libjwgl so it does still have portability issues.

And most game consoles can’t run Java so they had to totally rewrite it there.

mcosta · on May 23, 2022

Most game consoles are amd64 or ARM. Running java there is trivial.

astrange · on May 23, 2022

Minecraft for 3DS, Xbox 360, etc already exists and is a rewrite in C++. It’s older than current game consoles.

But they don’t have JREs even if they have the right kind of CPU in them.