Microsoft and Mojang release part of Minecraft source code on GitHub

Part of the basic Minecraft game libraries on GitHub has been released by Microsoft and Mojang under an MIT license.

A few days ago the source code of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 was released by Microsoft, which were lost for several years and now the company has published part of the source code of Minecraft, the game that marked an important revolution in the world. of video games. Microsoft bought the Mojang company that developed the game four years ago for $ 2.000 billion and now some of the code has been published and is accessible to everyone.

Microsoft releases some of the source code for Minecraft.

Within the official Minecraft blog an entry has been published that says 'play with how Minecraft works' where you can find two important game libraries. The idea is that current and future developers have the opportunity to use these libraries in their projects without major problems. They are released under the MIT license, which in Mojang's words allows anyone to contribute and help improve the game's own engine.

These libraries have been named 'Brigadier' ​​and 'DataFixerUpper'. The first is referred to in English as' command parser and disperser 'and the second library does the functions of' incrementally building, merging and optimization of data transformations… [to convert] the game data for Minecraft: Java Edition between different versions of the game '

Video game fans may not be too interested in this post, but those who want to develop mods for the game can do so in a much easier way. Mojang, for his part, has already announced that he intends to expand the collection of libraries available in the near future. Those who want to download these libraries and fiddle with them a bit can do so. within your own GitHub repository.