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.
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.