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"Go 1.5 provides support for Android and experimental support for iOS." I thought this day would never come.

by rifung 11y ago

Yuioup 11y ago
I seriously was wondering if Go would ever replace Java on Android because of legal troubles. I'm still wondering.
- izacus 11y ago
  That will happen as soon as Android team decides to scrap all development of Android and rewrite it in Go.
  - castell 11y ago
    It could also happen that ChromeOS and Android merge with Go as native language and HTML5 apps as another first class citizen. I read in then news that iOS9 will use Swift in some internal apps/libraries too (major internal rewrites?).
namelezz 11y ago
I wonder how Go can be better than Swift for iOS development.
- danieldk 11y ago
  I think the attractiveness is that you can share Go code between applications on different platforms, which is not possible with Swift as long as the compiler and standard library is not open source (or generally available).
- kainosnoema 11y ago
  It may not always be better since you'll likely never be able to call from Go into Cocoa libs, but if you can write a shared library and use it on the server, iOS and Android, then it's a big win. Linking a Swift app against the shared Go library and calling directly from Swift into Go sounds pretty great to me.
  - fit2rule 11y ago
    >call from Go into Cocoa libs It can be done, thus: #cgo LDFLAGS: -Wl,-U,_iosmain,-U,_PopUpDialogBox Any developer who wants to do this needs only to create these #cgo statements for whatever Cocoa API they want to use, and they become available from the Go context ..
  - _ak 11y ago
    > It may not always be better since you'll likely never be able to call from Go into Cocoa libs IIRC, Go can call any Objective-C code through cgo.
- pjmlp 11y ago
  I would never exchange the power of a ML based language with first class support from the OS vendor, by Go.
pjmlp 11y ago
It will not come unless Android team changes their mind. What the Go team is doing is providing the same level of access that C and C++ enjoy. Which means that outside developing games or writing pure business logic, is all about JNI fun.
fit2rule 11y ago
I've been using Go 1.4 for iOS development and it works fine. This is just mainstream'ing the support for iOS, which is needed now because things seem to be quite settled. In fact, I really like using Go on iOS - the ease with which it can be done was astonishing!
- auto 11y ago
  As a professional iOS dev and a golang tickerer, I've heard nothing about this, but I'm curious; any projects you can point me at?

"Go 1.5 provides support for Android and experimental support for iOS." I thought this day would never come.

by rifung 11y ago

"Go 1.5 provides support for Android and experimental support for iOS." I thought this day would never come.

Yuioup 11y ago

I seriously was wondering if Go would ever replace Java on Android because of legal troubles. I'm still wondering.

izacus 11y ago
That will happen as soon as Android team decides to scrap all development of Android and rewrite it in Go.
- castell 11y ago
  It could also happen that ChromeOS and Android merge with Go as native language and HTML5 apps as another first class citizen. I read in then news that iOS9 will use Swift in some internal apps/libraries too (major internal rewrites?).

namelezz 11y ago

I wonder how Go can be better than Swift for iOS development.

danieldk 11y ago
I think the attractiveness is that you can share Go code between applications on different platforms, which is not possible with Swift as long as the compiler and standard library is not open source (or generally available).
kainosnoema 11y ago
It may not always be better since you'll likely never be able to call from Go into Cocoa libs, but if you can write a shared library and use it on the server, iOS and Android, then it's a big win. Linking a Swift app against the shared Go library and calling directly from Swift into Go sounds pretty great to me.
- fit2rule 11y ago
  >call from Go into Cocoa libs It can be done, thus: #cgo LDFLAGS: -Wl,-U,_iosmain,-U,_PopUpDialogBox Any developer who wants to do this needs only to create these #cgo statements for whatever Cocoa API they want to use, and they become available from the Go context ..
- _ak 11y ago
  > It may not always be better since you'll likely never be able to call from Go into Cocoa libs IIRC, Go can call any Objective-C code through cgo.
pjmlp 11y ago
I would never exchange the power of a ML based language with first class support from the OS vendor, by Go.

pjmlp 11y ago

It will not come unless Android team changes their mind. What the Go team is doing is providing the same level of access that C and C++ enjoy. Which means that outside developing games or writing pure business logic, is all about JNI fun.

fit2rule 11y ago

I've been using Go 1.4 for iOS development and it works fine. This is just mainstream'ing the support for iOS, which is needed now because things seem to be quite settled. In fact, I really like using Go on iOS - the ease with which it can be done was astonishing!

auto 11y ago
As a professional iOS dev and a golang tickerer, I've heard nothing about this, but I'm curious; any projects you can point me at?