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thescriptkiddie
on Jan 26, 2016
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Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Editio...
There might as well be if you don't have the source code.
Sanddancer
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People are already making mods to the C++ versions even without source code, doing the same thing that was done to make mods with the java version.
https://github.com/byteandahalf/MCPE-NativeMods/wiki/1:-Maki...
thescriptkiddie
on Jan 27, 2016
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Disassembling and patching a binary is a completely different thing from porting software to a different OS without access to the source code.
cptskippy
on Jan 27, 2016
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Yes, it is very different. I'm not sure what that has to do with Minecraft though since it's source isn't freely available.
thescriptkiddie
on Jan 27, 2016
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The Java binary can be run on any system for which a JVM exists. If Microsoft ports the entire thing to a native language like C++, we are at their mercy to provide binaries for non-windows systems.
cptskippy
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Did they have access to the Java source code? No, I believe they were just decompiling bytecode.
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