On the other hand Minecraft is the best-selling PC video game of all time and it was originally written in Java and the Java client is the definitive experience of the game.
Heh, thanks for bringing that to my attention; based on the video alone, I think that'd be right up my alley (linky-linky:https://www.gog.com/game/project_zomboidand it's on Steam, too, if you're into that)
> Why?
From the GOG page:
Works on: Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.9.0+)
is almost certainly "why," and I'd guess the lua part is because it seems to be the lingua franca of game modding, so meet folks where they are
It's a game. It's UI is full screen and completely divorced from "standard" UI elements (WIMP, etc).
You can call it a desktop app, and you'd be correct in the most pedantic sense, but then every web app is also a desktop app since you run it on a desktop.
Still, not really in the sense of the article - he's talking about desktop apps like word processors or email clients: Minecraft's GUI is just a big canvas that the 3D renderer renders into. It's not using any windowing components - IIRC, even the menu and buttons were custom.
Why? Well, I have absolutely no clue...