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No, reimplementation of the Java standard library was the core issue in that lawsuit, and Kotlin akso uses the Java standard library.
by pavon 2y ago
No, reimplementation of the Java standard library was the core issue in that lawsuit, and Kotlin akso uses the Java standard library.
- pjmlp 2y agoIndeed, people keep telling Kotlin was a way out of the lawsuit, while forgetting Kotlin, Gradle, Android Studio, and whole whole Android SDK run on Java / JVM. Even with ART, Kotlin withouth the richness of the Java ecosystem at Maven Central is worthless, hence why after the whole Kotlin push, now ART is modular and updated to more recent versions, currently Java 17 LTS. Via Play Store updates from Android 12 onwards. Kotlin was pushed by a couple of folks with managment powers, given the team marriage with JetBrains, and a way to push common interests with Android tooling.