MS has had a lot of game design experience, so I'd assume their choice is valid. Within any of their development setups, C++ has been a first class citizen along-side C#

Also, iirc Bedrock integrates a JS engine, plus an websocket server, both for the sake of scripting (with WS, pretty much allowing any practical language)

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And they spend a significant amount of the last blog telling about their experiments like, "climbing a 2 block high wall" and "climbing a 1 block high incline"

I don't think MS has much to worry about from HS encroaching on the king

I think MS bought it just for the IP, the sheer amount of pull MC has as a brand, with collabs with lego, netflix, book authors, their own official books, MC dungeons, etc etc, that's just pure power

And IMO they are still leading it in the right direction, trying to fill out a lot of areas without complicating the base system (e.g. only adding cosmetic blocks pretty much, there isn't much that needs improving of the wood, stone, iron, (gold), diamon, tiers)