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It's hard to love, I agree, but if you were designing something like Android from scratch now what language would you choose? I'm having a hard time thinking of
by cageface 14y ago
It's hard to love, I agree, but if you were designing something like Android from scratch now what language would you choose? I'm having a hard time thinking of reasonable alternatives. In the long run I'd like to see something like Go or Kotlin become options but really they're too left field right now.
- bcoates 14y agoJavascript would be an obvious choice for anything centered around creating UIs. Palm-now-HP's nice WebOS platform is essentially a recent direct competitor to Android and did that.
- cageface 14y agoI really don't think a dynamically typed language is desirable as the primary development language for a mobile platform. Static typing is just too useful and makes it a lot easier to optimize too. Java is still quite a bit faster than JS. Something like Kotlin seems like a good choice to me, if it takes off.