Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++

Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by XplodingForce on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:12AM (#10988572)

You are right, but google is moving to OpenJDK. This will fix those problems, or did I misunderstand what the implications of this move will be? http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/29/google-confirms-next-andro...

edit: The article does state at the end that google will still modify OpenJDK for their own needs, but that still means that the vast majority of the implementation will be the same, so this seems to avoid most incompatibility issues.

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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by uxcn on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:30PM (#10989644)

Thanks, I actually missed this. The difference with modifying OpenJDK is that it's a common codebase as opposed to a language fork.

I know Redhat is one of the other major OpenJDK contributors, and a lot of distributions are relying on IcedTea. It will be interesting to see how this develops.

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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by pjmlp on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:33AM (#10989151)

So far Google has adopted parts of OpenJDK 7.

They still don't tell anything about newer versions.

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