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[ardera]

I'd probably wait a bit with the CraftOS 2.0 Jam a bit, since everyone needs to get to know the API, how everything works, etc. Also I have nearly no time around christmas since my grandparents visit my family very often at that time, and I'm sure that's the same with others too.

[oeed]

ardera, on 25 November 2015 - 06:26 PM, said:

I'd probably wait a bit with the CraftOS 2.0 Jam a bit, since everyone needs to get to know the API, how everything works, etc. Also I have nearly no time around christmas since my grandparents visit my family very often at that time, and I'm sure that's the same with others too.

Well if it comes out next week we'd give it two weeks or so for people to learn how to use the new API. The main point of it really is for people to try out using it and see what it can do. While I do understand that many have family visiting it is still a holiday and therefore far better time for most.

[Lego Stax]

I'd be super excited to participate in something like this. Please do this if CraftOS 2.0 comes out.

[Creator]

Why ask, you can organize it yourself too, LegoStax. (But you'd probably need help.)

[CaosTECH]

Creator, on 25 November 2015 - 11:55 PM, said:

Why ask, you can organize it yourself too, LegoStax. (But you'd probably need help.)

Yeah but if he does he most likely won't beable to 'submit' a program if hes hosting it. Unless he had someone else to judge for him

[Lego Stax]

Creator, on 25 November 2015 - 11:55 PM, said:

Why ask, you can organize it yourself too, LegoStax. (But you'd probably need help.)

I never thought about it like that. Yeah! I'd be happy to help! But, I do not have access to any sort of public server that I would be comfortable using. I'd be happy to be a judge or help out in some way though.

[Creator]

Lego Stax, on 26 November 2015 - 03:17 PM, said:

Creator, on 25 November 2015 - 11:55 PM, said:

Why ask, you can organize it yourself too, LegoStax. (But you'd probably need help.)

I never thought about it like that. Yeah! I'd be happy to help! But, I do not have access to any sort of public server that I would be comfortable using. I'd be happy to be a judge or help out in some way though.

To help you need to organize it and help judging.

[Konlab]

oeed, on 25 November 2015 - 01:53 AM, said:

If it is indeed CraftOS 2.0 I was thinking about running another CCJam (coding competition) with the focus on making stuff with CC 2.0.

Thoughts on this? I'm not really sure what school holidays are doing in other places in the world, but in Australia most are wrapping in about a week or two which would be ideal timing.

No holidays here, sorry. We have holidays from 23. Dec to 7. Jan (Christmas)

[LeDark Lua]

We have holidays from: 28Dec to 6Jan.

[Creator]

No holidays on Christmas?

[LeDark Lua]

For me: yes NO RED PAPA FO ME jk )

[oeed]

I see an app icon...

https://twitter.com/...771824196755456

[Blue]

Just an idea,it would be great if CraftOS 2.0 had support for the Raspberry Pi.

[LeDark Lua]

Glass Systems, on 30 November 2015 - 06:00 PM, said:

Just an idea,it would be great if CraftOS 2.0 had support for the Raspberry Pi.

Or a real OS. Just saying, I would use it everyday!

[Lupus590]

If it runs on java (which I guess is a safe assumption) then you should be fine (I think there is an openJDK port for the Pi)

[Creator]

Running it on Java would be slow. Isn't there a C/C++ implementation? I believe it'd be faster.

[Creeper9207]

C++ was the first implementation ( i beleive ), or it was one of the C-languages

[Lupus590]

'Normal' Lua is written in C and is therefore compatible with C++. LuaJ is a Java port of Lua, and is written in Java (CC uses LuaJ).

[Creator]

Doesn't luaj have bugs luac hasn't?

[ElvishJerricco]

Creator, on 30 November 2015 - 06:59 PM, said:

Running it on Java would be slow. Isn't there a C/C++ implementation? I believe it'd be faster.

This is a common misconception about Java. It isn't slow. According to benchmarks, it's actually quite fast. The JIT makes it able to keep up with C in real world applications. Occasionally, Java can even beat C, because of its ability to consolidate optimizations between libraries (optimizations through dynamic linking). Truthfully, it will often be on the wrong side of C, and perform marginally slower. But it's forgivable, and still very fast.

Java's performance problems come in the way of the garbage collector, and programming poorly for it. Minecraft is so much less performant than its Win10 and mobile C/C++/C# (whichever it is) equivalents because those versions have been properly optimized, and aren't destroying a GC. Java Minecraft is written such that it hammers the GC, which slows it down significantly.

That said, I have no evidence to claim whether LuaJ is slower or faster than Lua. That's dependent on how well / poorly LuaJ and Lua are written. I'd have to look at benchmarks.

Edited by ElvishJerricco, 01 December 2015 - 03:52 PM.