Forging Minecraft's scripting API

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 – GitHub, X
• Jake Shirley – Website, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!