[mrspeaker]

I can't believe it's actually happening - I was resigned to the fact it was dead.

I once (4 years ago, sheesh) made a "Pure-JS, no-build-step-required Minecraft Thing": https://github.com/mrspeaker/webgl2-voxels

When I made it I needed to specify it "Requires ES6 modules and WebGL2 support." At the time I was sure WebGL2 was going to be widely available soon and that ES6 modules would probably never be supported!

[danuker]

Wow! A simple 3D game in 425KB.

For me, google.com is 1.47MB. It makes you wonder what they put inside.

[mrspeaker]

You got me wondering what was going on - 425Kb seemed pretty high. I imagined there would only be around 50K of non-compressed source code. Turns out the 200Kb+ culprit is the texture atlas I nabbed off the internet: https://github.com/mrspeaker/webgl2-voxels/blob/master/res/m... - I'm only using a handful of cells out of that, I should chop it!

[miohtama]

This is not the world we wished for, but this is the world we deserve.

[encryptluks2]

Nah, we don't deserve it. We just don't have a choice at this point until someone is capable of creating an alternative to JavaScript.

[CamperBob2]

Nah, we don't deserve it. We just don't have a choice at this point until someone is capable of creating an alternative to JavaScript.

Didn't you mean "an alternative to Google?"

Don't blame the tool for the (lack of) craftsmanship.

[encryptluks2]

It has nothing to do with Google and everything to do with JavaScript.

[hmmokidk]

The issue isn’t JS. Sites are bloated because cheap/lazy/dont care. Also because ads are bloating and payload size isnmt really thought about much.

[encryptluks2]

The issue is JavaScript unless you're talking about people that use BMP image format instead of JPG/SVG.

[lewisjoe]

You are asking for an alternative for browsers and 30 years of evolution. Be careful what you wish for :)

[grishka]

Way too many abstractions.

[egeozcan]

You know what would be fun? Trying to program a bot to clear all the titles using the same interface as humans (WASD + Mouse + Vision). That could even be a competition.

[Narishma]

That looks pretty simple. Is there anything you're doing that wouldn't be possible in WebGL 1?

[mrspeaker]

Nothing at all - rewriting it for WebGL1 would be trivial (if you rely on OES_vertex_array_object being present). But really it was just me learning, and I naively assumed WebGL2.0 would be ready "any day now". The only non-supporting browser was Safari. That was 4+ years ago!

[e12e]

Thank you for sharing. Appears you did not pick a license - I'd recommend just releasing under MIT unless you have any particular preferences (it's a well-understood "do what you want" license that I believe is suitable for educational content).

[myers]

Looks great!