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This might end your thread but...

Bad take from Notch considering he used LWJGL + Java for Minecraft, which packs in quite a few engine-like features (lots of OpenGL helpers, instant multi-platform).

LWJGL is higher level than SDL, closer to a Raylib for Java.

Minecraft mostly started as a 3D array of cubes using the OpenGL procedural pipeline in LWJGL.

I competed in Ludum Dares with Notch before Minecraft was a thing, so I remember the technology quite vividly.