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Re:Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS... by rattray on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:47PM (#10441833)
what are the advantages of this over Kotlin?
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Re:Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS... by mynameisjohn on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:52PM (#10441850)
can't tell if troll
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Re:Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS... by JJJollyjim on Friday October 23, 2015 @08:53PM (#10441993)
To be fair, I can't really tell from the website what this is and why I would want it ("doesn't Android already have a JVM?"), and Kotlin could easily be defined as "a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on Android" as well!
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Re:Avian: a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on iOS... by eropple on Friday October 23, 2015 @09:13PM (#10442031)
In the first line of "About Avian" on the homepage:

> Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class lbrary [sic] designed to provide a useful subset of Java’s features

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