Minecraft has a lot of servers. Most of them are pretty slow. What if we rewrote them in Rust though?

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This post discusses a new Rust project called 'Pumpkin' that significantly improves the performance of Minecraft servers. The Rust rewrite of Minecraft's server reduces memory usage to 27 MB and CPU usage to 1.5%, compared to the Java version's 2 GB of RAM and 24% CPU usage. Various Rust-based high-performance Minecraft server implementations are mentioned, showcasing the substantial improvements in efficiency and resource utilization. Additionally, the challenges and progress of reverse-engineering Minecraft's server protocols are highlighted.

Making Minecraft 100x faster (by rewriting it in Rust)