As other commenters have stated, java is best for modability both because of it's extensive community support and inertia (already written mods are on java). H

As other commenters have stated, java is best for modability both because of it's extensive community support and inertia (already written mods are on java). However, (this may not be true any more, but I think it is) you get a free version of the win10 store version of minecraft with a java edition purchase. So just buy the java version, and you get both (and the prices are pretty close last I checked)