Consideration given to porting over to Java

[Spoma]

Is it possible that any consideration will be given to porting OOTP over to Java? It seems to me that it currently is written in VB which is why there are so many issues trying to run on MAC and Linux. I would love to have my home PC be a Linux machine and the only things keeping me from making the transition is OOTP and TPF. I am sure there are many others out ther like me that are MAC users and Linux users that would like to do the same.
I have seen some chatter on the forum about people trying to run DirectX with WineX. I have seem very limited success so I have not made the attempt at this yet.
But it seems to me a lot of these problems would go away if the applications where written in Java. So I was curious if any consideration was given to this.

[ukbldodgers]

I'm a linux user at home, apart form one machine for games (and shortly music), and I think Java would be a horrible solution. It can be a pain to install, you need to make sure you've got the right version of of the virtual machine, and it's really not meant for the sort of number crunching that must be going on down in the game engine.

There's also the licensing issue. I don't know if eLicence works with Java (though I know there are similar things that do).

I'd love to see a linux native version, but I can't really think of any solution to the licencing problem at the moment.

[kingcharlesxii]

Originally posted by Spoma
Is it possible that any consideration will be given to porting OOTP over to Java? It seems to me that it currently is written in VB which is why there are so many issues trying to run on MAC and Linux.

It's written in C++, not VB. I want it to stay in C++ because it will be faster. I'm about one of the biggest Java advocates out there but I can't imagine this program would be better in Java. You'd have to compile to bitcode to have any semblance of performance which then causes it to lose Java's nice cross-platform interoperability.

Also, have you considered a dual boot?

[Bonedwarf]

Originally posted by Spoma
Is it possible that any consideration will be given to porting OOTP over to Java? It seems to me that it currently is written in VB which is why there are so many issues trying to run on MAC and Linux.

*shakes head*