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> That was kinda my point. C++ would have been my first guess, but I don't know. Not
> that is was a minecraft question per se, but the maker of minecraft used java
> because, according to an interview, that's what he knows. I was wondering if anyone
> would CHOOSE java/browser based or anything else for that matter, over c++ if they
> had all options available to them and i didn't lead them that way in posing the
> question. How much more powerful could minecraft be it was redone on anything other
> than java? Again, not to focus on minecraft, per se, but on platform choice in
> general. Just curious.

Let me put it this way: Java is roughly the same performance as C#/.NET, and everything you see on Xbox Live Indie, Games for Zune, and Windows Phone 7 is C#/.NET. It's not a bottleneck for what Minecraft is doing.