Posted 08 October 2013 - 04:22 AM
"Has everything been done?"
I would say no. A lot of trivial things has been done. We can all lock our doors, make nice tunnels, play rock paper scissors digitally and automatically bake bread now. And we have a few big programs that can do some really cool stuff like manage large computer networks, perform wireless printing, surf the web and login using a remote shell, which are all awesome things.
The number of atomic things possible with programming are definitively infinite, but there's certainly a glass ceiling when it comes to functionality, particularly when we're talking about integration with the core mechanics of minecraft (which are finite). But with other mod integration the complexity and room for innovative ideas is only going to get bigger.
I think it's really cool that after all this time we've amassed this community of really skilled programmers that share a common passion; it can take game companies years to do that. So long as we all enjoy the mod and people keep using it, I'm sure new and innovative ideas will continue to trickle through, maybe slower when they did but arriving all the same.