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Long story short, Kotlin is easy to support without substantive (any?) changes to Android runtime, golang would involve much more effort. It's also not clear t
by itp 9y ago
Long story short, Kotlin is easy to support without substantive (any?) changes to Android runtime, golang would involve much more effort.
It's also not clear to me there's any desire to write applications in golang.
- blhack 9y agoNative android application development is totally not my community. I admit I have never even heard or kotlin. Actually, at the coworking space I'm currently streaming the conference at, nobody had heard of kotlin. edit: AH, Kotlin runs on the java virtual machine. That makes much more sense to me now.
- itp 9y agoSorry, that's the context I should have provided! (Knowing that also probably explains why they cut to a shot of the JetBrains CEO in the audience, since Kotlin originated there.)