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Re:Build Android Apps in PicoLisp Without an Android SDK by swiley on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:14AM (#17565287)
It can scale but it takes an increadible amount of care.

Everything has to have unit tests and documentation and be split out into reasonable modules. Large scale projects in C are honestly easier to work on than JavaScript.

It does scale but almost no one puts in the effort to do it.

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Re:Build Android Apps in PicoLisp Without an Android SDK by nine_k on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:26AM (#17566568)
If writing a lot of support code is inevitable anyway, why not automate writing tests, etc? That is, why not write a proper translator from a more expressive language? Something like Elm, maybe.
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Re:Build Android Apps in PicoLisp Without an Android SDK by swiley on Saturday July 21, 2018 @06:36PM (#17584202)
I’m pretty sure that’s what typescript is.
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