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Re:Swift Ported to Android by pjmlp on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:30AM (#11175508)
No, for example UNIX IPC isn't available.

Google has ripped most of the stuff they see as fluff for Android.

Edit: Any C and C++ API not listed as stable and public on the NDK docs is not guaranteed to exist in all devices.

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Re:Swift Ported to Android by jacquesm on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:38PM (#11179667)
Google has ripped out most of the stuff that would have made smart phones actual computers rather than smart terminals.
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Re:Swift Ported to Android by pjmlp on Friday February 26, 2016 @01:06AM (#11180045)
If you think of C and C++ point of view, yes.

On the other hand the Frameworks are quite expressive for applications, but one needs to use Java 6.5 or resort to third party solutions like retrolambda and Kotlin.

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