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Can you expand on this?

• pjmlp 11y ago
  In what sense? These roadmaps have been presented at multiple Java conferences.
  • AnimalMuppet 11y ago
    I suspect that ctbattags meant "can you expand on why these will make the situation get worse", rather than "can you expand on what these things are". But I'm not ctbattags, and I'm not psychic, so I could be wrong...
    • pjmlp 11y ago
      I see, then themgt's answer covers it. From a technical point of it just seemed obvious to me.
• themgt 11y ago
  If you mean the "getting worse" part, I believe the implication is that Google's lack of control over either Java the language, or the Android device ecosystem upgrades, means the future would likely see increasing fragmentation/divergence in important core language features across Android devices, causing much developer pain. If one assumes e.g. in comparison Apple will in 2 years have 95% of devices capable of running Swift 3 apps vs. 15% of Android devices capable of Java 8, much less 9/10 ... it could be quite a competitive disadvantage for Android, as well as argument for adopting a forward-looking JVM language dedicated to compiling to 1.6 bytecode if you plan to do Android development.