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Web is a platform, so they would need to rewrite half of Android, I don't think it would be worth it, I don't see real benefits of that for users or devs... I

Web is a platform, so they would need to rewrite half of Android, I don't think it would be worth it, I don't see real benefits of that for users or devs... I think that Java 8 is a great language, I like it a lot more than Javascript. Go would be great too.

eropple 13y ago
In all seriousness, I just want a C API. I like different languages for different purposes, but C is still the lingua franca. You can have your Go, I can have my C++, the next guy can have his Python. As-is, native code on Android is a cluster, and even for games it's pretty uncomfortable and filled with Java shims. Kinda gross.
moystard 13y ago
Why would you have Go on a mobile OS as a mobile application development framework?
- weland 13y ago
  One guy calls the web a language, now someone calls Go a mobile application development framework. Come on, guys, we're programmers, let's call things by their right names. Go is a programming language, and technicalities like goroutines aside, you'd want it pretty much for the same reason why you'd want Java, Objective-C, JavaScript or, Heaven deliver us from the Symbian days, C++: some people think it's a nice language. Frankly, I'd trade Java for Go any day.
  - moystard 13y ago
    My bad, meant programming language.
- RivieraKid 13y ago
  I probably wouldn't switch from Java but lots of people want to use Go to make Android apps.
  - sheldor 13y ago
    I'd trade Java for Go in a heartbeat
- georgemcbay 13y ago
  I think of Go as being a language and runtime as opposed to a "development framework", but why wouldn't you have it as a mobile OS language, particularly when compared to Java? I'd love to see Go on Android. I doubt it will happen anytime soon though because it would require an entirely new runtime library environment to really be Go-like, just bridging Go to the existing Android Java APIs via Java<->JNI<->CGO<->Go would result in something very horrible.

eropple 13y ago

In all seriousness, I just want a C API. I like different languages for different purposes, but C is still the lingua franca. You can have your Go, I can have my C++, the next guy can have his Python. As-is, native code on Android is a cluster, and even for games it's pretty uncomfortable and filled with Java shims. Kinda gross.

moystard 13y ago

Why would you have Go on a mobile OS as a mobile application development framework?

weland 13y ago
One guy calls the web a language, now someone calls Go a mobile application development framework. Come on, guys, we're programmers, let's call things by their right names. Go is a programming language, and technicalities like goroutines aside, you'd want it pretty much for the same reason why you'd want Java, Objective-C, JavaScript or, Heaven deliver us from the Symbian days, C++: some people think it's a nice language. Frankly, I'd trade Java for Go any day.
- moystard 13y ago
  My bad, meant programming language.
RivieraKid 13y ago
I probably wouldn't switch from Java but lots of people want to use Go to make Android apps.
- sheldor 13y ago
  I'd trade Java for Go in a heartbeat
georgemcbay 13y ago
I think of Go as being a language and runtime as opposed to a "development framework", but why wouldn't you have it as a mobile OS language, particularly when compared to Java? I'd love to see Go on Android. I doubt it will happen anytime soon though because it would require an entirely new runtime library environment to really be Go-like, just bridging Go to the existing Android Java APIs via Java<->JNI<->CGO<->Go would result in something very horrible.