Mixin VS ForgeFlower

Compare Mixin vs ForgeFlower and see what are their differences.

Mixin

Mixin is a trait/mixin and bytecode weaving framework for Java using ASM (by SpongePowered)

ForgeFlower

Forge's modifications to FernFlower. Fixing various bugs/inconsistencies. Main Repo: https://github.com/MinecraftForge/FernFlower (by MinecraftForge)
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Mixin ForgeFlower
13 1
1,304 76
1.7% -
6.0 3.3
2 months ago 7 months ago
Java Kotlin
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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Mixin

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mixin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-13.
  • Hello I would try to start Modding in Minecraft. Have you any advice or good tutorial for beginning ?
    2 projects | /r/CurseForge | 13 Dec 2022
    And one day maybe you'll need that to inject code into specific location, but it's to do advanced things: https://github.com/SpongePowered/Mixin/wiki
  • Scratch Is a Big Deal
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2022
    These days Mojang provides obfuscation maps, so you can work with proper class and method names (though no parameter or local variable names). There's also been a lot of effort been put into the tooling. Nowadays there exists Gradle plugins that will download the game jar, decompile it and deobfuscate it using the official mappings. You develop against the deobfuscated code, then the plugin will turn the unobfuscated names back into their obfuscated versions when you compile. There's also been technology developed that lets you easily modify specific parts of a method in the game, so you can e.g. insert calls to your own functions at runtime.[1] This saves from you having to modify the game jar itself.

    [1]: https://github.com/SpongePowered/Mixin

  • New open source Java decompiler
    9 projects | /r/java | 28 Apr 2022
    quilt (and fabric) take mojang's jar and preprocess it similarly, but the rest of the modifications to the code are done at runtime using a ridiculously powerful instrumenting classloader. the game is not decompiled at all, other than giving you something to look at in the IDE.
  • Questions on Coremods
    2 projects | /r/feedthebeast | 29 Dec 2021
    If you can't use the API, I suggest you to use Mixins or really asking yourself if your idea should worth the instability/effort of creating a coremod.
  • Minecraft 1.18 Pre-Release 2: Minecraft 1.18 will require Java 17
    6 projects | /r/java | 16 Nov 2021
    see spongepowered's mixin wiki
  • Tenor.devlog[1] - Fabric Mod Setup, and Tenor's state
    4 projects | dev.to | 6 Apr 2021
    As you will see in the setup part, getting started creating a mod is really straightforward, and quite simple at first. Although, there are some complex topics like mixins, or accessWideners, which I will try to cover in detail in a future devlog.

ForgeFlower

Posts with mentions or reviews of ForgeFlower. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-28.
  • New open source Java decompiler
    9 projects | /r/java | 28 Apr 2022
    I'd also like to thank the MinecraftForge Team for creating ForgeFlower, the fork that QuiltFlower was based on, and Lee Benfield for creating CFR and it's truly incredible test suite.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Mixin and ForgeFlower you can also consider the following projects:

vineflower - Modern Java decompiler aiming to be as accurate as possible, with an emphasis on output quality. Fork of the Fernflower decompiler.

fabric-example-mod - Example Fabric mod

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

MCPConfig - Public facing repo for MCP SRG mappings.

bytecode-viewer - A Java 8+ Jar & Android APK Reverse Engineering Suite (Decompiler, Editor, Debugger & More)

fernflower - Unofficial mirror of FernFlower Java decompiler (All pulls should be submitted upstream)

cfr - This is the public repository for the CFR Java decompiler

jabel - Jabel - unlock Javac 9+ syntax when targeting Java 8

Perses - A project to cause (controlled) destruction on your jvm application

lwjgl - [LEGACY] LWJGL 2.X - The Lightweight Java Game Library.

yGuard - The open-source Java obfuscation tool working with Ant and Gradle by yWorks - the diagramming experts