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I don't think they should be rewritten in Kotlin. That would force everyone to use Kotlin with minimal benefits for Kotlin users.
by benjymo 7y ago
I don't think they should be rewritten in Kotlin. That would force everyone to use Kotlin with minimal benefits for Kotlin users.
- liopleurodon 7y agoMight have less to do with users and more to do with Oracle v Google
- pjmlp 7y agoI am fine with Google having their own ".NET", at least it isn't Google J++ anylonger.
- pjmlp 7y agoJava 9+ is not supported on Android, so if you want to link to a Java 9+ library for an Android application, your only path is to rewrite it in Kotlin, as it is clear from this announcement that Google won't bother to add the required machinery to ART to support Java 9+ class files and new libraries. Naturally the other alternative would be to downgrade the code back to Java 8, but then the question remains for how long they will keep it around.