MS is slowly killing off Java so they can push Bedrock (much less flexible) on everyone though. And all my daughter's friends use Bedrock :-\. I have a server with GeyserMC running to let them play together but it definitely isn't what it once was.
I do think that I have yet to see a bedrock player on windows as compared to java player on windows & I have been playing minecraft for so long and joined so many discord communities of minecraft related as well and that's my experience.
Java is really peak minecraft, with modpacks as well. You should try out prismlauncher, its open source and works quite smoothly on linux and you can try a lot of modpacks which the bedrock players can't play.
Fabuously Optimized is a must have modpack given how efficient it can make minecraft / give fps boosts
Yes, exactly. It seems the demographic for Bedrock tends towards kids because it's supported on tablets. IME the demographic for Java is either older kids or adults or people with interest in modpacks, which is a lot of people. All the major YouTubers who have run worlds for challenges for years are all on Java.
Whenever someone in my group asks to play some MC, there's no "Bedrock or Java?" question, it's just Java every time.
The only major thing Bedrock has right now that Java doesn't is the new stock shaders, but I assume that is coming to Java soon.
RealismCraft 2.0 would like to have a word with you. And it's paid.
Of course the course of Microsoft and jeb_ might be different and he might get pushed towards some decisions later. The problem is that kids nowadays don't use computers. They use phones and tablets. For me Minecraft experience on phone is awful but there are many young generations that consider it native way of playing games
Although I see now that the project is archived, not sure the story behind that.
Part of it was the almost year between 1.7.x and 1.8, so some major mods like Thaumcraft never made the jump.
Gregtech New Horizons (GTNH) has been back porting mods and features to 1.7.10 (like the ability to run on Java 20+) because that’s easier than porting the whole mod pack forward.