Both the original version of Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Bedrock Edition were written in, you guessed it, C++, allowing for implementations and features that Java couldn't always achieve.

Why Minecraft Java still feels like the ‘real’ version of the game despite significant development in Bedrock. 1) It is the original release edition.

That new version was called Bedrock. Bedrock, aside from the previously-mentioned platforms, is also available on Windows 10. So, unless you’re on a Mac or run Linux, PC players will have a ...

Minecraft started as a passion project by developer Markus Persson (commonly known as "Notch"), in the faraway past of 2009, and first became available as a very early pre-alpha on May 16, 2009 ...

Java is also not terribly well optimized for 3D games like Minecraft, and wouldn't have run well on the first round of consoles it released on, which includes the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.