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…who are paid to work full-time on it. How does that not count as Google investing in it? What else would investing even mean?
by gecko 11y ago
…who are paid to work full-time on it. How does that not count as Google investing in it? What else would investing even mean?
- pjmlp 11y agoAdding Go to the official SDK and providing official bindings. Go team is just doing what everyone else does, by making use of the NDK and writing Go wrappers manually on top of JNI calls to the official Android APIs. So far there have been zero interest from Android team to support anything other than Java. Even the C and C++ support is just to write performance code to be consumed from Java, not to write full blown apps.
- giancarlostoro 11y agoThey were never asked by Google to make a language, and as far as I've always known (feel free to provide a link that says otherwise) Google employees are allowed to spend some of their work time to work on side projects, I've never heard of Google only paying them to work on Go and only Go, please feel free to correct me on this as it's news to me.