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.
Well … BE is just a rewrite in C++. But a bad and inflexible one, as we see, so it’s very good that we have JE. Lets see for how long, not because discontinuing it would be good for users, but would grant M$ much more control and direct power.
We should just rewrite it on Rust. We can start with writing a graphics renderer from scratch.
TBH, Minecraft development has always been extremely conservative. Even basic “hard” features like a modding API, cubic chunks, LoDs or an optimized renderer were too extensive to do.
Bedrock is basically Microsoft sicking a whole team onto a C++ rewrite for their business purposes, not Mojang’s core devs deciding to do it.
This is not bad, per se. Their careful, slow direction stopped JE from getting enshittified, bloated, buggy, things like that. But it’s been kinda frustrating, too, given Minecraft’s enormous user base.
Microsoft definitely has enough funds to rewrite java edition in C++. Would it be possible to ensure mod compatibility tho?
Would it be possible to ensure mod compatibility tho?
No. That’s the whole point of Java, it’s quite hackable.
It doesn’t need a rewrite TBH, it just needs a little optimization. Heck, a few performance critical components can be written in C++ or whatever within the Java code.
