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I'm still super shocked that Google doesn't expend more effort to get more languages running on Android. It feels like a no-brainer for them to want straightfo
by rtpg 10y ago
I'm still super shocked that Google doesn't expend more effort to get more languages running on Android.
It feels like a no-brainer for them to want straightforward usage with, say, Python. Is it really a performance thing?
- skocznymroczny 10y agoThey're kind of trying with Dart and https://flutter.io/ https://flutter.io/
- pjmlp 10y agoActually that is more the Dart team searching for ways to stay relevant, than the Android team caring about it.
- pjmlp 10y agoNo, it is a political thing. I guess the Java bias is very strong among the ex-Sun and ex-Danger OS developers that have joined the team since the early days. You see this on Google IO presentations from the last couple of years, when the audience asks about alternatives, including existing JVM languages.
- hd4 10y agoWith the legal issues they have had with Oracle, I'm surprised they didn't move on from the JVM/Java much earlier.
- pjmlp 10y agoWell, they started them, by not wanting to play ball. And since I expect someone to post Jonathan Schwartz public comment commending them, here goes what Gosling had to say about it. "We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade, which annoyed a lot of folks at Sun." https://www.wired.com/2012/04/gosling-slime/ https://www.wired.com/2012/04/gosling-slime/ Companies like IBM, Atego, Aicas, MicroEJ, Excelsior, ARM among many others, never had known issues dealing with either Sun or Oracle licenses, while providing their own Java compilation chains and hardware specific APIs.