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> but, I don't like Java, and I don't like Android's development experience Android now has Kotlin officially supported. Kotlin is easier to learn than Java IM

> but, I don't like Java, and I don't like Android's development experience Android now has Kotlin officially supported. Kotlin is easier to learn than Java IMO.

coolg54321 8y ago
The whole java/kotlin (jvm/dvm experience) is a big turn off. I really wish for go/swift first-class android development experience.
- pjmlp 8y ago
  That would never happen. Go team's efforts for NDK deployment were always on their own without any major support from Android team. Unless you are targeting pre-5.0 devices Dalvik is history, ART is the new runtime system for JVM based languages. Which even if they would drop them, it is quite clear they would either be replaced by the Web stack (PWA/WebAssembly) or be based on their Flutter ongoing experiments with Dart.
girvo 8y ago
It’s not the language I personally can’t stand, but the whole tooling and build experience. Horrid. Also Maven/Gradle/JVM package and build management in general frustrates me.
- vorg 8y ago
  Perhaps Google and Jetbrains will replace Gradle with Bazel in Android Studio sometime soon.