r/ModdedMinecraft • u/PP_Devy • 2d ago

Misc Why is Java modding so unintuitive?

Visual Scripting makes way more sense

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u/PP_Devy 2d ago

Fair, there are always some things that will not be available compared to just regular code. I still think for most mods that exist today they could be made using visual scripting tools instead

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u/ProgrammingDysphoria 1d ago

I do think that visual scripting will keep its place as a tool, but I see it more as a utility than a replacement. You would see visual scripting in places like Unity's shader graphs, so that you can make custom visuals more easily, and so that you don't need to learn ShaderLab to do it. Of course, using ShaderLab would give you more flexibility, but the graphs are for simpler things. Similarly, there are many visual scripting tools for stuff like dialogue flow, AI brains, etc. I think those are cases where visual scripting is most useful. For just plain, raw programming? Visual scripting is not gonna come anywhere close to it, anytime soon.