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Most of Android is written in Java, so no, that's not going to happen in our lifetimes. All we can hope is that ART is good enough that Dalvik goes away and we
by Touche 13y ago
Most of Android is written in Java, so no, that's not going to happen in our lifetimes. All we can hope is that ART is good enough that Dalvik goes away and we can start building stable languages on top of ART (as opposed to with Dalvik which only has immature / experimental languages not-named-Java.
- MBCook 13y ago> Most of Android is written in Java, so no, that's not going to happen in our lifetimes. It could easily happen if Google wanted it to. Java can call native code (and vice-versa). Other system vendors have changed core implementations before. Apple has pulled it off 2 or 3 times at least. It wouldn't be easy, but it's certainly possible.
- Touche 13y agoYeah, absolutely, but they'd have to have a very good reason to do so. I want them to do it too, but I doubt it will happen unless they reach some major roadblock that makes ART unsuitable.