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Google could give a huge boost in confidence in Go, tomorrow (or rather within 2 years) - just make Go the official main language to use for writing Android app
by higherpurpose 12y ago
Google could give a huge boost in confidence in Go, tomorrow (or rather within 2 years) - just make Go the official main language to use for writing Android apps and start deprecating Java.
Once it does that, I don't think there will be any doubt in anyone's mind that Go has less chance of survival than say Java. In fact, Java will immediately lose confidence once Android drops Java (in a reasonable 3-5 year timeframe).
- jacquesm 12y agoAre you suggesting that the Go language would be retargeted to the VM? Or that Android apps would be compiled into binaries executed without a VM? Either way, fascinating idea, and it would be a good way to settle the Google/Oracle dispute once and for all. If they choose the second path (security will be a huge concern) they might even pick up a nice speed boost too.
- zmmmmm 12y agoI've secretly hoped Google would be going down this path for a long time but sadly no evidence of it. > Or that Android apps would be compiled into binaries executed without a VM? What I imagine in my Android-Go-fantasy is something like NaCl - your code compiles to native code, but a subset of provably safe native code ... so sort of a best of both worlds.
- sergiotapia 12y agoI haven't made any mobile apps for Android precisely because it uses Java. If I could use Go to build apps - oh boy, I'd be a happy camper.
- rwallace 12y agoSurely it could, but the problem with that strategy is that Android is of far, far greater strategic importance than Go. Rocking the boat on the former to boost the latter doesn't make any sense at all.