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Re:Android, evolvability and Comcast by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:21PM (#14179908)
Probably historical reasons; when Android was created, was Python good enough? Particularly on underpowered processors with tight power requirements?
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Re:Android, evolvability and Comcast by diyseguy on Monday April 24, 2017 @02:25PM (#14186700)
At the time Google started promoting Android OS, Google was well known to use primarily Python internally. So I was very shocked and discouraged by their choice of Java. I assume it was to reach the widest developer audience at the time. Maybe a case can be made for using Java otherwise, but Java is my least favorite language due to it's excessive verbosity and other pointlessly fussy restrictions.
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Re:Android, evolvability and Comcast by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday April 24, 2017 @03:48PM (#14187483)
Android was not started by Google; I presume when they bought Android Java was already entrenched
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