Forging Minecraft's scripting API (JS Party #334)

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Raphael Landaverde & Jake Shirley work on Minecraft full-time. How cool is that?! On this episode, they join Jerod to tell us all about the web tech that drives Minecraft’s scripting infrastructure, how they incrementally change a massive / always-moving target, the best / worst parts of the job & much more.

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Featuring:

• Raphael Landaverde – Twitter, GitHub
• Jake Shirley – GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Hyrum’s Law
• Introduction to Scripting in Minecraft
• Minecraft Bedrock Editor Overview
• microsoft/minecraft-scripting-samples
• Active community Discords
• Raph on Discord: MidoriTerra
• Jake on Discord: DarkNavi

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Did you know?! (00:00:56)

3. Jake on Minecraft (00:02:24)

4. Raph on Minecraft (00:04:08)

5. Why web tech? (00:06:27)

6. The scripter's perspective (00:13:01)

7. All the Minecraft versions (00:15:14)

8. Applying Hyrum's Law (00:17:32)

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

9. Sponsor: Wix (00:22:38)

https://www.wix.com/studio

10. Rolling out changes (00:23:33)

11. A moving target (00:26:10)

12. Engineering team size (00:28:26)

13. What people are selling (00:34:57)

14. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:36:44)

https://changelog.com/news

15. The hardest part (Raph) (00:38:21)

16. The hardest part (Jake) (00:40:44)

17. The 'burn it down' approach (00:42:27)

18. The best part (Jake) (00:48:57)

19. The best part (Raph) (00:50:50)

20. Touch points (00:51:57)

21. The guys join team Build Step (00:53:53)

22. Closing time (00:55:59)

23. Next up on the pod (join ++) (00:56:18)

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