But they're not recreating Minecraft. They're recreating one of the most common tutorials on the internet that shows a simple voxel overworld and nothing else. That's not Minecraft.
Important distinction, but I would debate the "most common tutorials on the internet" claim.
I think you meant “pedantic distinction”. Everyone reading that comment understands that recreating Minecraft is a very common tutorial for game development, not literally one of the most common tutorials on the internet in general.
We are on HN, I thought that goes without saying.
Only Minecraft is Minecraft. Is that the bar for creating Minecraft?
It just kills me how there is this meme that minecraft is just walking around on a bunch of grass and dirt voxels and if you have that, you have minecraft. It was way, way more complicated than that even 15 years ago.