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Not trying to diminish the achievement, but this is really old and I’d be surprised if it’s still relevant for a significant number of people, seeing that nativ
by alex_suzuki 5y ago
Not trying to diminish the achievement, but this is really old and I’d be surprised if it’s still relevant for a significant number of people, seeing that native iOS and macOS development has moved to Swift for quite some time now, and using Java as language for some kind of proto-codebase feels like a niche case.
- cies 5y agoAnd on Android, Kotlin seems to be pushed.
- wffurr 5y agoIt's useful if you want to share code across apps. This is particularly useful for business logic and such, not as much for UIs. The other cross-platform alternatives are C++ (potentially faster but unsafe by default with footguns galore) and JavaScript (incredibly slow - have to RPC everything into a webview). Rust might also be a good fit for something like this, but I'm not sure what the story is for compiling Rust for Android JNI or with Objective-C/Swift.
- innagadadavida 5y agoDefinitely relevant - iOS ships lucene code that is transpiled to over a billion devices.