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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
by 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 agoWhat stops you from using Kotlin, Scala, or other languages that are available for Java VMs?
- cwyers 12y agoThis 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 agoWhile 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 agodo 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).