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That's actually one reason (well, among many, many others) I don't develop anything for Android except some toy apps I made for my kids (using a third-party C++
by sidlls 10y ago
That's actually one reason (well, among many, many others) I don't develop anything for Android except some toy apps I made for my kids (using a third-party C++ development kit). There's something about the entire Java ecosystem that just grates on me in a way that no other language does, and years ago when I first dipped my foot into mobile development on Android it seems like that OS amplified it all. I can't even explain it.
- remir 10y agoWhat is your opinion on Dart? I could see Google encouraging devs to learn Dart and make Flutter apps soon. Probably at I/O.
- pjmlp 10y agoIt is not Google encouraging devs, it is the Dart team looking for reasons to keep going, besides Ad Words. Just go watch any Android Fireside at Google IO or the responses of Android team at Reddit. Java is Android's language, with C and C++ just being there to the extent of implementing Java native methods, low latency code and code from other platforms, not full blown access to the OS APIs. As an example of an discussion regarding Scala, after their annoucement to ditch Jack and start anew their cherry picked features from Java 8. "Java is the language we officially support." https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/5zf1xo/future_of_java_8_language_feature_support_on/deyyp0n/ https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/5zf1xo/future_o...
- remir 10y agoYeah but what about Flutter? It's even part of Fuchsia, their new OS.