Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++
Micro optimized by John Carmack himself who volunteered (he was like a free consultant for while) for the task because he believed that&#x27;s the best that could be done to help VR. He first had to personally persuade both hierarchy at FB &amp; MS. So bold.<p>From : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;24&#x2F;how-john-carmack-pestered-microsoft-to-let-him-make-minecraft-for-gear-vr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;24&#x2F;how-john-carmack-pestered-...</a> :<p>“I was willing to do just about anything,” he said. “On the phone I said that if this doesn’t happen, I’m going to cry. This will just be so terrible. This will be the best thing that we can do for the platform. But there are some problems that compilers can’t solve.”<p>It turns out that the solution was to get the top executives from Facebook and Microsoft together.<p>“Mark [Zuckerberg] and Satya [Nadella] were able to sit down and make sure that the deal happened,” said Carmack.