kopper 4d ago
if the goal of "free software" is to give the user control over how the software behaves then is minecraft[1] more free than, say, gcc[2]? thread locked by moderators after reaching 100 pages of intense debate

[1]: where an end-user can usually install >100 mods with a lot changing the game in nontrivial ways reasonably trivially without major conflicts
[2]: where combining multiple features from different forks requires lengthy conflict resolution usually dependent on deep knowledge of the systems being modified
Show threadkopper 4d ago
what im trying to say is github.com/FabricMC/Mixin & github.com/LlamaLad7/MixinExtras rock and we need clones of them for more languages and environments
GitHub - FabricMC/Mixin: Mixin is a trait/mixin framework for Java using ASM

Mixin is a trait/mixin framework for Java using ASM - FabricMC/Mixin

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Show threadprincess pancake ​3d ago
@kopper https://github.com/microsoft/detours
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@kopper The problem is not that it would be impossible in native compiled stuff

But rather that compilers demolish functions on purpose
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Show threadprincess pancake ​3d ago
@kopper The claim that this is hard out of Java is not entirely true

We have call conventions and symbols

It's that Java inlines in HotSpot (at runtime)