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Would be lovely if they officially supported Clojure too.

• gshayban 9y ago
  I'd love that too, but there is a startup time overhead with the Clojure runtime. Given the moves Google's made in recent wrt moving away from JIT for startup time reasons, this would be challenging.
• jakebasile 9y ago
  I'm with you, but I think the size and startup time of Clojure might be a big hurdle.
• MBlume 9y ago
  If you want to use Clojure on Android, I'd recommend Clojurescript and React Native https://github.com/drapanjanas/re-natal https://github.com/drapanjanas/re-natal
• on_and_off 9y ago
  Google has chosen to support kotlin because the community has very strongly pushed in that direction. I am not too familiar with Clojure, what would it bring us that kotlin (or java) don't have ?
  • Skunkleton 9y ago
    Parenthesis. And lots of other things too. I just wanted to make a lisp joke. I will see myself out.
• vickychijwani 9y ago
  As much as I want this, it's not going to happen for the simple reason that Clojure adds a big runtime and a huge startup cost on Android, which is unacceptable. It's fine for servers, but a total deal-breaker for mobile apps. Kotlin on the other hand has a tiny runtime (< 1 MB before dead-code elimination etc with Proguard) and negligible startup cost - in fact several popular Android libraries have a bigger startup cost impact than Kotlin.