Yes the blue bird website did it first iirc

Let the arms race begin!

If anything, modders showed Mojang how it’s done. Looking at it now, the Forge API is really familiar

It’s an ironic name. Like our morbidly obese friend, Tiny.

Then again, Minecraft used to be (maybe still is? I haven’t modded in a while) a big mess of spaghetti code but somehow modders not only made it work, but made it work without any documentation and working from obfuscated code.