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When I say proven out, I don't mean in the sense of being widely used; I mean academically. In other words, I am trying to say that it's not a research problem,
by wes-exp 12y ago
When I say proven out, I don't mean in the sense of being widely used; I mean academically. In other words, I am trying to say that it's not a research problem, it's a problem of, say, engineering and marketing to bring it to reality. Cool language features are well established in academia (but tend not to go anywhere due to entrenchment and industry complacency – in that sense I would agree that they aren't 'proven').
- tormeh 12y agoIf Google says "This is the second official lanuage for Android" I bet any adoption issues would go away a la Swift.
- wes-exp 12y agoIndeed. Developers look to Google to set an example, but it seems that Google itself is looking to developers to set an example. Hence we have a circular pattern of language adoption :) But it doesn't have to be that way.
- programminggeek 12y agoGoogle would need to do this internally. Good luck convincing the 10,000 developers inside of Google stop using Java. Sure, they aren't all on Android, and there are plenty of people using Go, or Dart, or Python, but moving a company culture that large away from Java doesn't happen overnight. Obj-C to Swift won't happen overnight at Apple either, but it is much more likely to happen because they've been gradually working towards it for years now with LLVM and such.