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> A lot of C code out there targets platforms like that. It is much harder to maintain than Java code. Like a lot of Java code targeting Android is harder to m

> A lot of C code out there targets platforms like that. It is much harder to maintain than Java code. Like a lot of Java code targeting Android is harder to maintain than C++, after just 6 months or depending on the brand of phone it runs on... > You can run Java them (and desktop apps) the same way: https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html Cool

pron 6y ago
> Like a lot of Java code targeting Android is harder to maintain than C++, after just 6 months or depending on the brand of phone it runs on... Android isn't Java, and it's never been. It's an incompatible fork that has never conformed to the Java specification of parts of an old version of Java. Its compatibility story might be very different from Java. It is also much smaller in its reach than Java, and even of COBOL, and its domain is also much smaller than either.