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If they're not even giving us Dart or Go for Android (their own languages), what is the probability they will give us official support for Scala? Yes, Scala ru
by WoodenChair 12y ago
If they're not even giving us Dart or Go for Android (their own languages), what is the probability they will give us official support for Scala? Yes, Scala runs on the JVM, and the former two don't. And yes, Go is not really designed as an end-user GUI application building language. But Dart has a nice VM of its own and is designed for client-side apps. I would like to see Dart on Android and the original author is definitely confused when he calls Dart and Go "niche" languages (as a way of dismissing them) and somehow doesn't feel the same way about Scala. Scala might be marginally more popular than Go/Dart but it's not an order of magnitude. In fact, according to the latest Tiobe index (a terrible metric in my opinion, but one indicator) Go is more popular than Scala by one place.
- phatak-dev 12y agoOriginal author here I don't mean disrespect when I say niche. I just mean in terms of community, Scala seems to more diversified as it gets used in variety of fields compared to Dart and Go. This is just view of mine.