News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3. Parent comment

Re:Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3 by syrrim on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:05AM (#48968806)
> I don't know if that is an Arch distribution specific feature.

That's unlikely for two reasons, first because minecraft is closed source, and second because arch packages usually follow upstream very closely.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3 by ChoosesBarbecue on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:27AM (#48969015)
Based on my read of the `minecraft-server` package [0], I think it is using a management script wrapper around the raw Minecraft JAR [1], which implements the aforementioned idle functionality [2].

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/about/?h=minecraft-se...

[1]: https://github.com/Edenhofer/minecraft-server

[2]: https://github.com/Edenhofer/minecraft-server/blob/421ff0ff3...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3 by syrrim on Sunday July 19, 2026 @12:43PM (#48969626)
that's not arch specific per se but touche
[ Parent | on HN ]