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Amen! I find Android programming excessively verbose and convoluted. I thought Google was supposed to be staffed by geniuses. The whole thing feels designed by
by diyseguy 9y ago
Amen! I find Android programming excessively verbose and convoluted. I thought Google was supposed to be staffed by geniuses. The whole thing feels designed by a committee - like something Microsoft would put out. Why didn't they use Python? (Yes I've tried Kivy - meh)
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoProbably historical reasons; when Android was created, was Python good enough? Particularly on underpowered processors with tight power requirements?
- diyseguy 9y agoAt the time Google started promoting Android OS, Google was well known to use primarily Python internally. So I was very shocked and discouraged by their choice of Java. I assume it was to reach the widest developer audience at the time. Maybe a case can be made for using Java otherwise, but Java is my least favorite language due to it's excessive verbosity and other pointlessly fussy restrictions.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoAndroid was not started by Google; I presume when they bought Android Java was already entrenched
- CyberDildonics 9y ago> Why didn't they use Python Are you seriously suggesting using 50x the processing power as a native program on a mobile phone?