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Oracle suited Google for copying the APIs (not the implementation) of the Java standard APIs. It all started in 2010 [0] Kotlin was Google's backup if the suit
by alcidesfonseca 5y ago
Oracle suited Google for copying the APIs (not the implementation) of the Java standard APIs. It all started in 2010 [0]
Kotlin was Google's backup if the suit went Oracle's way.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
- blacktriangle 5y agoI guess given the recent court ruling we should see if Google sticks with Kotlin as a hedge, sticks with Kotlin because the community has embraced it, or pulls away from Kotlin as a no longer needed source of extra work.
- jcadam 5y agoIt's Google. They'll probably come up with a completely new programming language which they'll force on the community in some ham fisted way, then suddenly drop it in a few years when they can't figure out a way to massively monetize it.
- mhoad 5y agoI thought that was Dart. Which is honestly a shame because it’s a genuinely great language. But it does very much fit the bill otherwise
- cutler 5y agoNot really. Dart is single-threaded which was a mistake Google made in trying to keep it JS-compatible. If Dart had been multi-threaded from the start it might have stood a chance.
- blacktriangle 5y agoDart always stuck me as a solution looking for a problem, particularly in lite of more recent progress in JS itself. Can I ask why you think its a genuinely great language worth looking at?
- pvorb 5y agoI'm no expert in the Android ecosystem, but I think it was primarily a good choice for giving devs features they wanted to have while the underlying runtime and standard library got stuck at Java 6. The reason why they are still on Java 6 might have to do with the law suit, though.