Minestom VS Glowstone

- What server software or framework to use. Ideally, if you dont need too much vanilla features (world generation, all mobs & items implemented, etc), I'd use something lightweight that is not based off of the vanilla server software. There are a few projects like this on github, including: https://github.com/Minestom/Minestom , https://github.com/feather-rs/feather , https://github.com/KryptonMC/Krypton , https://github.com/df-mc/dragonfly (bedrock). Which one you use will probably depend mostly on your preference. - You will need a way to store data separate from the servers. A database like postgres should work. There are a lot of different databases tho!

Even if performance is your worry, Minestom is an open-source barebones reimplementation of the minecraft server. With this, you can make extremelly custom things and let people connect using the default vanilla client. Of coruse, you can pair this with a mod if you want to.

Depends on what you're doing on said server. If it doesn't require vanilla mechanics then Minestom might suit the job well. Other than that, I'd recommend Paper, Purpur or Pufferfish.

It's unlikely to achieve have such performance and feature using Paper/Bukkit/Spigot or the one provided by Mojang. If you want to write your own server-side software, you could use Minestom.

This is quite a difficult questions because it depends on which type of Minecraft is currently being used (java, bedrock, education). The hardware available for the server as well as the ages of the students. Normal Minecraft servers are notoriously single threaded which makes it hard to host a server for 75 without good hardware. You could look into a project called minestom which is a nice library for making a multi threaded server, but it would require the students to program the server themselves. Which definitely could be fun and educational, but isn't doable with younger students

It is called Minestom. Its not done, but here is the website and discord. If you check out the showcase channel in the discord you'll see some pretty cool stuff they've made with the current program.

Im experimenting with Minestom and I want to make some crazy stress tests (1k users).

Also to add to this, if you don't need full vanilla functionality and are more focus on higher player count than something slightly more experimental but more performant might be your best bet like GlowstoneMC (glowstone supports paper plugins) or Minestrom

Assuming you mean this Glowstone, you'll see they themselves acknowledge that "it is not ready for survival".

It's definitely not a realistic replacement for modded Minecraft in general, since that's really hundereds of games and Mineclone only aims to replace Minecraft itself. For modded, I'm not sure what the answer is. Even most third party clients/servers that are compatible with vanilla Minecraft don't support Forge mods. Stevenarella might support Forge to some extent, but I'm not sure how it works since Forge is written in Java and Stevenarella is written in Rust. I'm not aware of any third party servers that support Forge in any capacity, but Glowstone (which actually seems like a pretty good third party server by the way) does support Bukkit plugins.

Also to add to this, if you don't need full vanilla functionality and are more focus on higher player count than something slightly more experimental but more performant might be your best bet like GlowstoneMC (glowstone supports paper plugins) or Minestrom

You could. Glowstone is a Minecraft server written in Java (without any of Mojang's code) but it is still not feature complete from what I heard, so things are missing. When I tried it, it seemed pretty solid and fast though.

I forked a project [1] in 2015 to remove Gradle, and it then quickly subsumed the original project, remaining under active development to this day.

There were other reasons, but de-gradling was one of the main motivations for my fork, and among the first of the major changes I made. The project is an implementation of an API which was discontinued by the original developers, but initially was built using Maven.

After switching from Gradle (which the project switched to in 2014) back to Maven, build times significantly decreased and development became much more pleasant. I found Gradle to be like a speed bump slowing down development, and reverting back to Maven was like a breath of fresh air. Simple, straightforward, and fast. Maven may not be perfect, but it does the job well.

[1] An open source Bukkit server implementation, https://github.com/GlowstoneMC/Glowstone -> http://github.com/GlowstonePlusPlus/GlowstonePlusPlus