3 ms·
Actually a lot of apps are every bit as complex as a typical desktop app. I'm not sure if you've done much app development but many of the apps I've worked on h
by cageface 14y ago
Actually a lot of apps are every bit as complex as a typical desktop app. I'm not sure if you've done much app development but many of the apps I've worked on have been pretty large.
Unless you propose writing the entire OS in JS then there's also a huge advantage in using the same language for core OS and APIs and for application development.
In any case as some of the more modest Java replacements like Xtend and Kotlin mature I expect to see Java the language recede in importance for Android.
- fauigerzigerk 14y ago"there's also a huge advantage in using the same language for core OS and APIs and for application development." I don't disagree, but the core OS is written in C, a language that scares off a lot of people.
- cageface 14y agoSure but the bulk of the code above Linux + userland is Java and all the APIs are Java. In hindsight it might have been a better choice to just buy Mono but that ship has long since sailed, for better or for worse.