Minetestforfun wrote:Evergreen wrote:@Napiophelios: Hunger is a core part to a minecraft-like game, but what if game makers don't want to make a minecraft-like game? Even if it can be disabled, what is the point in adding something that will only benefit those who want hunger? I think we should focus more on giving modders and game makers the tools to create things like this. Heck, there are already some good hunger mods on the forum.
1) core features are faster than lua (and the code will be polished/stable/beautiful, i hope :))
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This is all completely invalidated by the fact that it still runs in Lua, not in C++. Also, the main slow down of Lua is from switching to Lua from C++, and from heavy operations like map editing.