Probably performance - the Java server takes up a lot of memory and CPU for what it does. The base implementation first started in 2011, so it wasn’t exactly designed to be multithreaded or parallelized because most games were still largely single-threaded at the time. Rewriting it from scratch in a different language probably helps with that
It’s not like the Java server is slow tho, it only becomes a problem when mods are added and rust servers can’t run Java mods so it’s a moot point. Maybe if you want an insanely large number of players on a single server?
It’s not like the Java server is slow tho, it only becomes a problem when mods are added
Lol, the java server is dogshit slow, it just doesn’t show until you have a big enough map if you’re not running mods. I played on a semi-public server and was a mod back in the day, and wed regularly have to do world resets because it started slowing down when people got far enough away from the spawn. Hell, even with mods it doesn’t start to slow down immediately, it waits until you’ve done a lot in your world before it starts chugging like dad after work.
Why write a server in rust? Java is already memory safe 🤔
Probably performance - the Java server takes up a lot of memory and CPU for what it does. The base implementation first started in 2011, so it wasn’t exactly designed to be multithreaded or parallelized because most games were still largely single-threaded at the time. Rewriting it from scratch in a different language probably helps with that
Counterpoint: Why the fuck not?
But is it fast?
It’s not like the Java server is slow tho, it only becomes a problem when mods are added and rust servers can’t run Java mods so it’s a moot point. Maybe if you want an insanely large number of players on a single server?
Lol, the java server is dogshit slow, it just doesn’t show until you have a big enough map if you’re not running mods. I played on a semi-public server and was a mod back in the day, and wed regularly have to do world resets because it started slowing down when people got far enough away from the spawn. Hell, even with mods it doesn’t start to slow down immediately, it waits until you’ve done a lot in your world before it starts chugging like dad after work.