Should you play Minecraft Java or Bedrock, and what are the differences between the two versions of Mojang's survival game?

Java 11 is getting long in the tooth, so many developers are moving to the next oldest version that's still supported, Java 17. Here's what's different.

Minecraft Java and Bedrock Editions mostly offer the same gaming experience. However, they have some striking differences in various aspects.

With that in mind, I've compared the differences between Dungeons & Dragons 5e as seen in 2014 and 2024, and put together this page to lay out all the important, major changes to the way you play DND.

Compare inheritance and composition, the two fundamental ways to relate Java classes, then practice debugging ClassCastExceptions in Java inheritance.

While JEP 447 offers greater flexibility, it preserves the essential guarantees of constructor behaviour, ensuring that subclass constructors do not interfere with superclass instantiation.