Android now supports Kotlin

Re:Android now supports Kotlin by geodel on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @02:53PM (#14361629)

I think Go is never going to be officially supported on Android. Dart, though, seems more likely as it is Java like VM based language.

Go is going to have better support on Fuchsia OS from Google.

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Re:Android now supports Kotlin by kibwen on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:32PM (#14362025)

I don't doubt that Fuchsia will support Go, but Dart appears to already be Fuchsia's officially preferred userspace language (via Flutter).

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Re:Android now supports Kotlin by geodel on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:41PM (#14362124)

Indeed. It seems preferred way for Fuchsia UI side. Go is more of infrastructure plumbing there. As someone who mainly work on backend stuff in enterprise apps I am happy with this situation.

What I am not happy with this whole browser platform embedded in frontend apps and called native and amazing. But that's for another discussion:-)

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Re:Android now supports Kotlin by tsvetkov on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:18PM (#14361860)

Dart is not a JVM Language. It can be compiled to the JavaScript or run in the Dart VM.

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Re:Android now supports Kotlin by cromo on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:27PM (#14361949)

The wording was a bit confusing, but I think they meant "Java-like" and "VM-based" as separate things, not that Dart runs on the JVM.

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Re:Android now supports Kotlin by tsvetkov on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @04:15PM (#14362389)

Oh, it seems I've skipped "like" in "Java like VM based", sorry.

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