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You know, the alternatives might not be great, but between Go and JavaScript V8, I bet Google could pull Java out of Android. It might take a few years, but it'
by programminggeek 15y ago
You know, the alternatives might not be great, but between Go and JavaScript V8, I bet Google could pull Java out of Android. It might take a few years, but it's possible. Then again, Oracle is trying to get Google to pay the $6 billion it paid for Sun.
Google should have just bought Sun, sold off the hardware business to say IBM, and kept Java and the patents.
In this case I think the nerds at Google were too clever for their own good and it's going to bite them in the long run.
- aboodman 15y agoWhat do you do with all the third-party software if you tear Java out of Android? I guess you could have a cross-compiler to <other-language> and run it automatically on install, with an option to run it at development time. But that means you need to also re-implement the entire Java SDK in <other-language>, not to mention the entire Android SDK. Wowzer. Big project. But you're right, it seems possible.