RuneLite exists, but nobody knows for how long. Some say it will never get discontinued, some say it's next to get killed, some say it's not worth botting on runelite and c++ is better. IIRC there is some secrecy going on with runelite too. I argued for osbot going to RuneLite but then realised native is superior. C++ will power the next 13+ years of botting, just as java powered the last 13 years It's the worst case scenario that happened, unfortunately everyone got caught off guard. Scripters lost all their hard work, I myself have a folder of >10 years of useless code now. GP prices skyrocketed to all time highs for months now, I saw 0.30/mill a bunch of times too, those are early 2014 rates. Everyone underestimates how massive the transition is, I can convert the scripts from java to c++ and it'll still take ages even if I use an LLM like chatgpt or claude, and that's if I even trust them to get the job done, half the time it's spaghetti code. So the conversion itself takes long, but hypothetically let's say chatgpt translates the code instantly - we must now test the code to make sure it works, and this takes up the majority of time involved. The truth is you cannot motivate scripters to work for free just because jagex decided to abandon their literal namesake (Jagex = Java Gaming Experts). A lot of people also forget that scripters are independent developers. Jagex changing the entire game client architecture effectively invalidated years of existing work overnight. You can’t realistically expect every developer to immediately rebuild massive projects for free in their spare time. And let's say they did it for free, would you even see a quality script? Or some rushed thing. Botters did indeed lose their bots, but some bots aren't even back yet. Half the bots are still pending conversion. And the client has a lot of new free scripts available. We actually beta tested the C++ client before the bot nuke happened, but maintaining both clients at the same time slowed development heavily. Now the focus is entirely on C++, which should make the platform far more stable long term. And it also gave the chance for a fresh start, a lot of new scripters joined and all the weird rules on scripting and prices were removed.
