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by Rohansi 1 day ago
> No wonder two widely moddable games (Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program) are written in Java and C# respectively, makes it very easy to create mods.

It's more that it's easy to write code that links directly into the game. Easy to do because you can decompile them and make changes easily without having source code. Sure, Minecraft was obfuscated for a long time, but people put a lot of effort into deobfuscation and obfuscation removes a lot less than native compilation.

(You also don't need an official modding API this way)