Hi Caleb, 1. a few years back I dabbled a bit in Minecraft development myself, so I could teach my son about programming (we were working on a new sport/arena-type-game mode, which alas never saw the light of day due to time constraints, even though we got pretty far (that the Minecraft code base is pretty awful & a constantly moving target did not help either ;-) ) ), and of course I did that using Groovy. 2. Ironically, after what I said in my last post, Minecraft development is one of the few areas where Groovy is not a 100% drop in Java replacement, due to the fact that the compiled bytecode needs to be transformed to be compatible with Minecraft, and this runs into some issues: 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8385 3. Afaik this never got resolved and the ticket accordingly closed after some time. This is something you could have a look at on your own, asking on the mailing list if a question arises - or maybe someone has the time & knowledge to guide you... G-)
Cheers, mg On 25/03/2024 21:38, Caleb Brandt wrote:
But uh, the biggest thing is that I want to spend my summer working on a passion project with some really knowledgeable people and get real-world experience in open-source software development. So like, if this even /somewhat/ sounds like a good idea... would anyone be willing to mentor me? 🥺