I think it is a good news if there is more than one project like Sponge. Every projects will have positive and negative points and the users will be able to chose what project is best for them. I think we have to make effort to develop Sponge, not to blast other projects like Husk. And if other projects can learn from other projects, this is a good news.
It is the same idea for plugins. I am the developer of a protection cuboid plugin: Factoid. I have not declared the war to GriefPrevention, WorldGuard or any others. It is to server owners to decide what plugin is the best for his server. This is the same reflection for Sponge, Husk and every other projects.
We employ a technology called libnative which is a bytecode manipulation and instrumentation library for Minecraft that we developed internally. We currently have libnative licensed out (for money) to other individuals as part of our completely proprietary NSEngine suite. Huskd is very tightly coupled with libnative. @brenhein is working very hard to decouple libnative from Husk, and until then we will not release either source of binaries because it contains proprietary libnative code. If we were to release anyway, we would be breaking the agreements we have with our licensees.
He is correct. Let the ‘market’ determine the best solution.
Do I use Apple products? - no but I am glad they are around (since I can smirk when they get egg on their faces after touting how ‘great’ their products are…)
Am I the only one who is completely confused now?
Sponge, Husk, granite, … . Are we going to make a standard or not? Because running API’s on top of api’s to get support here and their, isn’t going to help the minecraft community to run servers. As a plugin developer I don’t know anymore.
Also all these posts/advertisement on the Sponge forums are working on my nervs. Can everyone not make their own forum?
Very true, but in the end isn’t that the only thing that developers and server owners will care about? What has the best plugin to minecraft interface and what runs the best?
I wouldn’t consider it an issue. It’s not like we didn’t have multiple APIs to use before they were all DMCA’d
As far as I can recall, Granite, ArrowProject (discontinued), Husk, Sponge, are all going to be seperate APIs. They don’t run on top of one another, but potentially could run along-side one another. It seems like just a more flexible instance of when we had Bukkit, Cauldron, Canary, Spigot, etc, except they couldn’t run along-side one another.
I can’t see Husk interfering with Sponge at all. It’s presence on the forums isn’t even necessarily negative short of the troll who was spouting false information.
I wonder though (And genuinly I’m interested in a general answer)
Does the “competition is healthy” argument apply to open source? Especially in a market where people are looking for a general solution to a problem, not a specialized one?
