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Rust is almost/ready for Android and iOS, granted that the language itself is still in a state of flux: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for

Rust is almost/ready for Android and iOS, granted that the language itself is still in a state of flux: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-android https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-andr... More recently: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-June/010323.html https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-June/010323... https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-ios https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-ios

zanny 12y ago
You are still stuck using the GUI toolkits of the platforms in their native tongues. I think Qt and Mono (so C++ and C# respectively) are the only toolkits that support both of them with one code base.
- widdershins 12y ago
  JUCE also does. http://www.juce.com/ http://www.juce.com/
- lvh 12y ago
  Perhaps not so much a Serious UI Toolkit(TM), but anything that eventually compiles down to GL would work too. This is how play-clj does it: binding to libgdx, which eventually calls some OpenGL methods. While I did jokingly say "Serious UI Toolkit", there's more than a few awesome applications on Android that have very, very simple UI widget requirements. Particularly games, which according to the article, they're focusing on.
- ntoshev 12y ago
  Kivy does too. http://kivy.org/ http://kivy.org/
CmonDev 12y ago
Rust is a browser development language. Maybe he doesn't want to bother with memory management. Besides, is there a modern IDE for Rust (automated refactoring etc.)?
- Dewie 12y ago
  > Maybe he doesn't want to bother with memory management. Who is "he"? The poster michael was replying to said s/he was waiting for Rust to be viable.
- insertnickname 12y ago
  >Rust is a browser development language. That's a ridiculous assertion.
personZ 12y ago
It sounds like Rust, right now, can build a library that you can use in an NDK app. Go, right now, can build a service or utility that you can use in any Android app. http://goo.gl/mkCaJd http://goo.gl/mkCaJd It isn't integrated, and as they note as one of the gaps, doesn't currently support CGO (meaning you can't compile C code or libraries in with your Go executable), but it has worked quite well for some time.

zanny 12y ago

You are still stuck using the GUI toolkits of the platforms in their native tongues. I think Qt and Mono (so C++ and C# respectively) are the only toolkits that support both of them with one code base.

widdershins 12y ago
JUCE also does. http://www.juce.com/ http://www.juce.com/
lvh 12y ago
Perhaps not so much a Serious UI Toolkit(TM), but anything that eventually compiles down to GL would work too. This is how play-clj does it: binding to libgdx, which eventually calls some OpenGL methods. While I did jokingly say "Serious UI Toolkit", there's more than a few awesome applications on Android that have very, very simple UI widget requirements. Particularly games, which according to the article, they're focusing on.
ntoshev 12y ago
Kivy does too. http://kivy.org/ http://kivy.org/

CmonDev 12y ago

Rust is a browser development language. Maybe he doesn't want to bother with memory management. Besides, is there a modern IDE for Rust (automated refactoring etc.)?

Dewie 12y ago
> Maybe he doesn't want to bother with memory management. Who is "he"? The poster michael was replying to said s/he was waiting for Rust to be viable.
insertnickname 12y ago
>Rust is a browser development language. That's a ridiculous assertion.

personZ 12y ago

It sounds like Rust, right now, can build a library that you can use in an NDK app. Go, right now, can build a service or utility that you can use in any Android app. http://goo.gl/mkCaJd http://goo.gl/mkCaJd It isn't integrated, and as they note as one of the gaps, doesn't currently support CGO (meaning you can't compile C code or libraries in with your Go executable), but it has worked quite well for some time.