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dude, wheres my dart/go android support?

• smt88 9y ago
  Dart: https://flutter.io https://flutter.io Go: https://github.com/xlab/android-go https://github.com/xlab/android-go and maybe https://github.com/gonativeio/gonative-android https://github.com/gonativeio/gonative-android
• base698 9y ago
  When they have a repl maybe they can be considered.
  • korm 9y ago
    pub global activate dart_repl pub global run dart_repl And I'm sure Go has a repl too.
• mdasen 9y ago
  Kotlin was an easy win for Google. They didn't really add support for it, but merely bless the support that already existed (and with that blessing comes some assurance that things won't break for Kotlin in future versions of Android). JetBrains was already targeting Android as a big selling point for Kotlin because Android was still on Java 6 and lacked lambdas and streams and all cool new things Java has gained. Kotlin is also very close to Java. It adds some niceties for sure, but they worked hard to make Kotlin very close to Java. Data classes are great, but you could easily turn a data class into a POJO by generating the getters/setters/equals/hashCode/toString. The lambdas are great, but you could easily turn that into a Java 8 lambda or a Java 6 anonymous function. You might lose some elegance in the conversion to Java, but there isn't a lot of ambiguity in the conversion. Kotlin support is relatively easy for Google. It already existed via the normal Java support. Supporting Go and Dart means supporting an entirely parallel set of things.