Quote: Originally Posted by ElKeeed
Wouldn't it be much more useful in .NET? Java is ok as a theoretical language and where stuff absolutely needs to be cross platform but is it really suited to this sort of thing?
It might help if you provided some supporting reasons as to why it would be better in .Net. What is your line of reasoning for this conclusion?
My first reaction is to disagree since one of goals of this idea is to have a development community using and supporting this code base. To switch to .Net everyone working on it would need access copy of Visual Studio. Where as Eclipse and Netbeans are freely available. Also from the reading I have done there are much richer graphics and image library options for Java than .Net.
As far as Java only being a “theoretical language” I can not follow this line of reasoning. Java is the technology running the back ends of many mission critical services. It is what runs Google, eBay, Amazon, etc.