I haven&#x27;t done any Minetest modding, but I&#x27;m sure a pretty large part of that is due to the lack of a JVM. Forge can easily enough unpack the jar for clean enough source to plug into. C++ requires the Minetest devs themselves to guess what modders want to do and build Lua entrypoints. With the new Windows 10&#x2F;Pocket edition of Minecraft being C++ as well, they&#x27;d have to do the same thing I would think.