What is parity? This category is designed just for features that exist but work one way on one platform, and another way on a different platform. Bugs are not parity! Items in snapshots and betas are subject to change so please be sure to only post about things that are currently released in Minecraft. Please read the intro post before you post!

← Parity
20
Follow

(Java Parity) McBe code should be open source

Currently, only part of the code is given to the modding community of McBe , whereas in Java Edition you can mod quite a large portion of the code. It would be interesting to see what the Bedrock Engine will boast after its code is available for modding at a similar level at which Java Edition code is available for Modding.

Avatar
Registered User shared this idea

3 Comments

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Date Votes
Sorted by oldest
  • 1
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    Not possible bc of marketplace and there are Addons instead of mods.

  • 1
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    Open source is not the correct word when it comes to Java edition. Java bytecode is made to be easily decompileable - that means, you can convert a binary program back into Java source code. In fact Java edition is not open source but with reverse-engineering tools you can reproduce the source code of Java edition very well. This is what mod loaders for Java edition do. This does not make Java edition 'open source', it remains 'closed source' as you don't have the original source code.
    Bedrock edition is neither open source, but it is not written in Java and therefore harder to decompile. However, Mojang provides a public API for Bedrock edition, which is actually open source, but this API does not directly expose any of the Bedrock edition code itself, it's just a wrapper around some hidden, closed source code. Hence, there is no parity issue, unless you of course look at the fact that Java edition has no public API :)

  • 1
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    When you buy something, you should probably be able to see what you bought.

    So I totally agree with this.