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Re:Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server by nly on Thursday November 23, 2017 @07:29PM (#15768770)
Also, writing a plugin system that plays nice with threads is going to be a pita.
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Re:Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server by SpaceManiac on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:19PM (#15768890)
This is the big one. Glowstone was designed to be a native implementation of the Bukkit API (back when it was still on top), and I assure you that that API, and thereby every plugin built against it, makes some heavy single-threadedness assumptions.

Even if you conceive an API from scratch, Java hasn't the tools to prevent plugin authors from doing things they shouldn't in this regard.

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