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I don't see Android team itself is going to switch to Go or Javascript for android. Otherwise, I would say Kotlin[0] would be a better alternative to Java. [0]
by yla92 11y ago
I don't see Android team itself is going to switch to Go or Javascript for android.
Otherwise, I would say Kotlin[0] would be a better alternative to Java.
[0]: https://kotlinlang.org https://kotlinlang.org
- jinst8gmi 11y agoI'm curious how switching to Kotlin would help since it relies on the Java APIs and libs...
- on_and_off 11y agoKotlin is hip and cool. Since it outputs bytecode, IANAL but it probably does not helps with Java APIs litigation.
- geodel 11y agoFew things comes to my mind: Kotlin is JVM + Java interoperable language and this is its major if not sole selling point. So it does not help Google in any way regarding Oracle-Google copyright and patent issues. Any kind of support might come when some developers get down and write lot of code to support that language. Android team is not going to add any support just because someone wanted or voted to support new language on Android platform. At least people who wanted Go on android have written extensive amount of code to add support and still they are far from done.