User blog comment:Starlight45Oreos/What will happen to Minecraft Java Edition?/@comment-32358261-20180910212532

Java will continue to be supported. While bedrock has outsold java by a huge margin, the better version would almost definitely be java right now.

Microsoft need to combine all versions including java together. Get the best of both. There are features java has right now that will likely never make it into bedrock (like quasi connectivity and piston spitting out blocks). That reason alone would keep players on java unless they choose to discontinue java which would create an uproar