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You can use Scala for Android right now, as people are pointing out. However, it feels like a "second-class citizen" because the Android JVM has been optimized
by ryanthejuggler 12y ago
You can use Scala for Android right now, as people are pointing out. However, it feels like a "second-class citizen" because the Android JVM has been optimized for enterprisey, Java-style coding with fewer, longer-lived objects than functional programming usually demands.
At a guess, I'd say that with Java 8+ they'd have to fix that. Probably why they said "no comment" as pjmlp pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8192614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8192614).