Notch Coding Minicraft!
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as an example of Notch's famous live-coding sessions, which drew many early Minecraft fans.
What it is
Footage of Notch (Markus Persson) live-coding his Minicraft game in Java during a Ludum Dare 48-hour game jam. It shows a working game developer building a complete small game from scratch.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2012 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends thebigshane · 2012-02 · on “Hackathons are nonsense”
Watching `notch` live-code is also very popular. [1]: [LINK] Making Metagun [2]: [this video] Making MiniCraft [3]: [LINK]
Cites PeterStuer · 2019-11 · on “Nostalgia for Minecraft”
As I recall Minecraft's snowball started with geek dads watching Notch live coding and buying the game for their kids. [this video]
Cites deaddodo · 2022-03 · on “Hot-code reloading on macOS/arm64 with Zig”
If you watch some of Notch’s old game jam live streams; this is exactly how he used his Java environment and is probably why he was so invested in it. You can see some examples here when he just tests logic changes: [this video] (Though, he restarts often since he’s editing preloaded assets also)