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A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

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by nxobject

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This is amazing. And it's all done in 8 KLOC – half of it Java, half of it Rust.
Link to source: https://github.com/EVV1E/waylandcraft

by yakattak

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I can't wait to have windowing bugs and UI issues but in Minecraft!
Jokes aside, I've grown to love "XYZ in Minecraft". It's like a newer (still 2011 was a long time ago!) version of "Doom on XYZ".

by sandruso

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by inciampati

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by schobi

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I'm impressed by the coding skill to achieve a seamless integration and "usability".
But other than a demo "because we can" I'm confused on what this could ever be useful for. AR/VR prototyping? Virtual showroom?
Or maybe for an online presentation? Stream a video of playing Minecraft and get fancy slide transitions? "let's go to the next slide" and "now we enter dangerous territory".. "over here I can show you how this program looks like in real life"

by exidex

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Not sure why people praise Minecraft for this. This is huge feat of Wayland, and was possible because devs took time to consider use cases outside of current norm, and why it took so long to migrate the ecosystem. People liked to bitch about the "Gnome blocking/not implementing essential protocols" part, but even that partially made this possible

by jwlake

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by analogpixel

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Is Minecraft dethroning Emacs as the new weird OS that can do everything but probably shouldn't? Can I check my email in minecraft yet?

by samtheDamned

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I wonder how this would pair with a VR mod. It doesn't seem like Vivecraft supports the version this was posted for at the moment, but if they had the ability to play nice that seems like it would would be a fun way to experience software.

by ksymph

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by a_t48

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A friend sent this to me yesterday - I was very disappointed that the video didn't show off Minecraft in Minecraft.

by pjs_

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by DonHopkins

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I was hoping Wayland pixels would be Minecraft blocks, so you could make gigantic Wayland screens, or use one block as a 1x1 pixel Wayland screen.

by indianwashlet

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