Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition | Hacker News

It's extraordinary to me that Minecraft is both the game that has the most robust mod community out there and that the modders were working from obfuscated, decompiled Java binaries. With elaborate tooling to deobfuscate and then reobfuscate using the same mangled names. For over a decade! What dedication. More proof that you don't need the source code to modify software. Then again, Java has alwa