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Re:Watch notch (Minecraft creator) write a game in a live st... by shaspefu on Saturday August 20, 2011 @11:52AM (#2906885)
Can someone shed some light on his development environment? I realize that he's writing Java in Eclipse, but it seems that the changes he's making are showing up in the rendering in real-time. How is this possible?
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Re:Watch notch (Minecraft creator) write a game in a live st... by mtoader on Saturday August 20, 2011 @11:54AM (#2906892)
Eclipse will automatically update the running classes with the latest code that compiled. If you aren't changing method or class signatures then it will work like that :)
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Re:Watch notch (Minecraft creator) write a game in a live st... by mrud on Saturday August 20, 2011 @12:03PM (#2906909)
Seems to be standard eclipse. It is hot code replace - see http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_What_is_hot_code_replace%3F
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