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Or they just want to make Java less competitive to C#.

• oblio 10y ago
  On the other hand, after what happened the last time they used Java (back in the "embrace, extend, extinguish" days), I think they wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole. Though I do hope that they'll make the sources available. It's not like just a code dump will suddenly transform into viable competition for Xamarin.
• bossmojoman 10y ago
  Or they saw what Google just went through with Oracle and decided it's not worth it
  • giancarlostoro 10y ago
    I think it's a mixture of: what Microsoft went through with J++ (which is totally not what inspired C# cough) where they got sued for basically turning Java into Windows only, and what Google has gone through, which still makes me wonder with all their talents why they either don't invest in an entirely new language or find an alternative to Java that would be friendlier to be on their platform. I understand legacy apps and what not, but Oracle doesn't even want to help them out which could of been for their own benefit. Anyway, yeah... corporation owned programming languages...
• pjmlp 10y ago
  Oracle already did that by not caring one second in providing Java compilers for iOS and WP. The only thing they are supporting is some hybrid framework that wraps ADP into some Java version of Cordova. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/maf/overview/index.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/maf/overvi... With offers like that, no other everyone that favours native has mostly went C# or C++.