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Pirut • today at 9:55 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

I’ve actually been building the same thing except with the whole world.

https://github.com/pirut/earth-platform


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echoangle • today at 10:35 AM

How does this work? You need to somehow flatten the globe into a plane, right? Are you just using a regular map projection? It says that everything is real scale in the description and that can’t really be true at high latitudes, right?

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vidarh • today at 10:10 AM

Sounds worth posting your own ShowHN post for.

busssard • today at 10:51 AM

this is amazing! Now we just need a shared server that is accessible by anyone and see where that goes.

A world for anyone. should have more than enough are. it would be interesting to see if wars and terretorial conflicts arise here as well

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rfgplk • today at 10:30 AM

Please rewrite this in C++/Rust. Java at this point is a pure meme-tier language. I've dabbled with rewriting the JVM and actually properly optimizing but it's a complete waste of time when you can just generate optimal low-level code with inlined asm kernels where needed. You're genuinely leaving tons of performance/efficiency on the table. If you need a high performance minecraft engine there's TONS of rust rewrites on github, or you can generate your own.

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