Minecraft Finally Gets Multi-Threaded Servers

Minecraft servers are famously single-threaded and those who host servers for large player bases often pay handsomely for a server that has gobs of memory and ripping fast single-core performance. …

https://hackaday.com/2023/04/03/minecraft-finally-gets-multi-threaded-servers/
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Sorta shocking that something like that would be the case for so long.
This is going to sound stupid, but my preferred language is a dialect of BASIC that does multithreading really well -- I made a multithreaded multiplayer game back in 2005 that worked out pretty well. I assumed that Java would be similarly straightforward...
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@sj_zero @sjw html5 minecraft would be better than Java. Shit sucks. If bedrock was more easily moddable and had 1:1 parity with Java there would be zero reason to play Java anymore. The game legitimately runs a fuck ton faster on bedrock. Which uses c# iirc.

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