Basically title, this thing with two editions of the game slows down development because they now have to write the same thing twice and it splits the userbase. They also don’t want to make Bedrock edition for Linux for some reason.
Basically title, this thing with two editions of the game slows down development because they now have to write the same thing twice and it splits the userbase. They also don’t want to make Bedrock edition for Linux for some reason.
Because the modding community would have lost its marbles, even if Bedrock Edition fully supported mods, since it would very likely mean their existing work would need to be scrapped.
Yes, this is the reason, summarized well.
If Mojang ever stops updating Java, people will just play the old version because of the huge number of mods. Modded Minecraft servers made Minecraft what it was and then after Mojang put effort into the Java modding community that was doubly true because the client mods got good and got complex.
There are still a lot of popular modpacks on 1.7 (which is over 10 years old)