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Another great, highly opinionated, but still great, Yegge post. My favorite quotations: 1. "Android’s dev stack is the world’s biggest poo sandwich" 2. "And
by HillaryBriss 9y ago
Another great, highly opinionated, but still great, Yegge post.
My favorite quotations:
1. "Android’s dev stack is the world’s biggest poo sandwich"
2. "And Android? Yep. It’s the biggest poo sandwich of them all."
3. "...there are two Android APIs for getting mouse-click events on a scrolling list, but one of those APIs doesn’t work on LG. I mean come on."
4. "I love Kotlin; it’s the future of Java. But let’s face it: It’s not where the mobile market is headed. "
5. ... the Android org at Google is not sure whether cross-platform is good for them or bad for them, but that they are leaning towards “bad”
6. "most of the big shops are aggressively dumping [the android gradle build system] in favor of Buck — Facebook’s Android build system. Google is chasing a dying strategy here."
7. "guess who else is making a big play with a competing [android app] store? You guessed it: Jeff Bezos"
8. "if you’re locked in a fierce competitive race ... and need to launch faster, you should probably go with something other than Android Native ... Among the cross-platform options, React Native is looking like a winner"
9. "there are a lot of big sharks circling the Android boat. Google needs to be careful."