It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android

Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by pjmlp on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:52AM (#12699776)

Because outside the startup world, in many enterprises developers are only allowed to use sanctioned libraries outside what the platform owner advises as best practices.

So everyone suffers when anything more complex than hello world already required third party libraries, specially ones that aren't even acknowledged by Google.

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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by Klathmon on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:34AM (#12699952)

A self inflicted restriction doesn't make a language bad.

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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by pjmlp on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:56AM (#12700073)

It is not self inflicted, rather imposed by customers.

Also the Android operating system isn't a language.

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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by Klathmon on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:15AM (#12700185)

Regardless, it doesn't reflect on the language/os/ecosystem/platform/system/library/runtime

If a company wants to vet all of their software, good on them! But that doesn't mean that anything that's not vetted by them is somehow worse for the majority of users, just that they haven't vetted it yet. So any arguments about how "library x" isn't usable by them won't apply to the vast majority of people, because most don't have that issue, or have no problems vetting that library as well.

Somewhat off topic. Is there a word that encompses the langauge, platform, runtime, etc...? I hate the word "ecosystem", but it seems like the best bet. And using any one of the others brings out comments of "well it's not a language" or "it's not a framework it's a library" or something else.

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