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This is bullshit based on anonymous "Sources" of which we are not told their credibility or how they are connected to Android or Google. Anyone that thinks Goog
by guelo 11y ago
This is bullshit based on anonymous "Sources" of which we are not told their credibility or how they are connected to Android or Google. Anyone that thinks Google is going to rewrite the millions of lines of Android Java framework in a non-JVM language just doesn't know what they're talking about. I suppose it could be used for unmanaged native code, meaning games, but that's mostly already cross platform via things like Unity.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoThe automated translation of Java source to Swift would be trivial. Google already has a Java->Objective C translator. Once the source was automatically translated the developers can start optimizing. The days of Java being the only first class language on Android are numbered.
- guelo 11y agoIf somebody figures out how to compile Swift to JVM or Dalvik byte code then I'll believe it's happening.
- nostrademons 11y agoI think it's more likely that Google will support Swift on NDK. That's quite doable - there are already many other languages (C, C++, Rust, Haskell, Python) that will work on Android via NDK. And Swift is LLVM-based, just like the existing C++ and Rust toolchains. If you've ever done NDK programming, you'll know that this brings with it it's own set of hassles; it's not at all like writing Android apps in Java. But it could be quite useful for companies who have "headless" business logic that they want to share between iOS and Android.