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Re:Xamarin acquires RoboVM by giancarlostoro on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:34PM (#10428478)
I never really looked at RoboVM, would anyone whose used it care to weigh in on the positives and negatives of RoboVM?
Re:Xamarin acquires RoboVM by duaneb on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:00PM (#10428654)
It has limitations on runtime introspection and modification, but once you learn them, you can use idiomatic java and/or scala. That said, the limitations make it difficult to easily port.
Re:Xamarin acquires RoboVM by badlogic on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:33PM (#10429267)
The only limitation is the lack of runtime byte code genration. Reflection and proxies work as intended.
Re:Xamarin acquires RoboVM by johncolanduoni on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:01AM (#10430481)
One big positive is that it uses the same class libraries as Android, so if you're already targeting Android and not using runtime code generation, you don't have to port any of your non-UI code.