magicseeker

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   by magicseeker 19y ago

   I don't think that's quite I'm saying. I'm not put off by the platform because of the initial incarnation of the language I still want an Android phone and expect to write programs for it at some point. Instead, I'm saying that I'm put off
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   by magicseeker 19y ago

   Exactly. And I'd wonder if some sort of direct Scala -> Dalvik compilation could work around some of the crufty bits of Scala (like its lack of proper tail recursion) and of Android (like all of the performance tuning suggestions in the
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   by magicseeker 19y ago

   I was pretty interested in the contest until I read the T&C and learned that all submissions had to be written in Java. I think that shows a lack of imagination on Google's part. A lot of cool applications could have been made by people