It&#x27;s Microsoft - it is entirely against their culture and history as a business to allow anything they control to be cross platform. This is just the usual embrace-and-extend crap. Promise faster Minecraft now, and never get around to building the Linux and Mac versions. I suspect that &quot;always get updates&quot; promise I paid for years ago will be ignored.<p>&gt; good sense to build in a good API for mods<p>LOL. That API already exists - it&#x27;s called Forge. We gave up caring about an official &quot;mod API&quot; <i>many years ago</i>.<p>&quot;Where&#x27;s The Modding API?&quot; - Yogscast, Dec 20, <i>2013</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=G-zthYFjk6s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=G-zthYFjk6s</a>