Talk:Update 1.1/@comment-31277115-20170411100921/@comment-28905095-20170411154243

Whilst I think TheKimbler1 is correct that MCPE is programmed in C++, that is not the reason why it's harder to program Stained Glass. C++ and Java is, when you know them, just as easy to program in.

The issue which does make the Stained Glass harder is that the physical model it represent is much harder to do. It's not just whether there is light or not, but you have to take into account that any given block could have light (and colored light, that is) from multiple sources. This calculation of the total light hitting an object is not a trivial thing to program.