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I almost wish Google loses against Oracle at the Supreme Court, and is forced to pay Oracle billions every year as long as it continues to use Java, just so it'

I almost wish Google loses against Oracle at the Supreme Court, and is forced to pay Oracle billions every year as long as it continues to use Java, just so it's forced to switch away from Java. Almost, because I know Google losing that lawsuit could mean dire consequences across the industry. But it's still annoying that Android has to use Java and can't change away from it.

WildUtah 12y ago
Clearly a win for Oracle would be a horrible disaster for the industry and freedom of speech. It would also be a huge relief and benefit to Android programmers once it forced Google to switch the platform to a less awful language.
- danieldk 12y ago
  What stops you from using Kotlin, Scala, or other languages that are available for Java VMs?
  - cwyers 12y ago
    This gets asked pretty often around here, and the answer (IIRC) is that in order to use any non-Java JVM language on Android, you have to link in a lot of libraries, and you start running into limits that Android puts on how much stuff you can pack into an executable.
    - izacus 12y ago
      While mostly true, use of Kotlin has been rather nice with IntelliJ. Standard library is very small and out-of-the-box IDE support with Gradle plugin helps alot.
    - on_and_off 12y ago
      do you mean the 64k method limit ? It does no longer exist (solved in 21, and a multi dex format has been introduced for earlier releases).