Both, but I prefer the bukkit community, as it's more open, nicer and without profit. (The Spigot community was back then ... not that nice (to say it politely)) And spigot likes to claim things, like claiming they are the official successor etc
Aye, the misunderstandings between the Bukkit community and the Spigot community... Everyone needs to back up and look at the big picture, IMO. This is Minecraft, we're all in it together, and everyone's done something important. We should be one group, not a bunch of groups fighting over who did more, or what, or when. TL;DR: Spigot and Bukkit need to co-exist.
Yupp, but now the spigot team has quite some work to do: They have to "update" craftbukkit to 1.9 - Which is something never have done in that big fashion. But let's see how it works and when sponge is ready
It will be interesting if Sponge will be able to keep up. Considering how long it takes for Forge to update with minecraft, I am not sure whether they will just fall behind...
There is now SpongeVanilla, a stand-alone server that doesn't use Forge. Updating Bukkit to 1.8 was quite a chore as well. Spigot will do it. Again, we should be in this together, and if anything, the Bukkit community and the Spigot community should be working together on 1.9. Instead it appears as if the Bukkit community is standing on the sidelines screaming that Spigot can't do it, Spigot is lame, etc. When in reality, Spigot is just another part of the community that's keeping Minecraft alive. I personally don't feel Sponge will overtake Bukkit/Spigot for quite a while, but yes, we'll see.
I think Spigot is far ahead of Sponge, and that they will most likely never overcome Spigot... I have also heard about SpongeVanillia. ---------- Post merged by Saphiria If you don't feel Spigot is the official successor, then who do you think is?
Sponge is functional, Its possible to make plugins with it. Since I've made plugins for both (bukkit API (incl. spigot's additions) and sponge), I have to say, that sponge is quite nice. Quite a few things are different. But you no longer need to use NMS code (version dependent) and debugging is easier. I would define it in another way: Spigot is one of the successors, like sponge. Quite a few contributors of bukkit are now developing sponge. Not so many moved to spigot
All I can say is, I wish Sponge the best of luck at making something better than Craftbukkit. They certainly have an uphill battle ahead of them, but hey, props to them for wanting to take it on in the first place.
No, was just looking at their website. They also seem to have a vanilla support. Will make it more difficult for them to support all these different versions though.
When I was looking at their repositories, on GitHub, they have Vanilla and Forge separated. So it looks like if you wanted completely vanilla you could.
