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		codexon on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 an... Minecraft isn't exactly a very demanding game. Also 10 years ago Java was nowhere near as fast as it is now. If you are saying that Javascript might be an option 10 years from now, I am not disagreeing with you.

kcbanner on Sept 20, 2013 [–]

Its actually very demanding, CPU and memory wise.

knome on Sept 20, 2013 | [–]

The question for that is whether that CPU and memory use is required by the game, or the result of the language and runtime used to craft it.

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