Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin
by pjmlp on Saturday December 07, 2019 @04:40AM
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Worse of all it that they don't acknowlege how bad it is for Kotlin as well.
What good is Kotlin's FFI to Java, if everything that you have at your disposal are out-of-date java libraries?
Even the new desugaring being done in R8 and D8 can only go as far as what ART is capable of, sometimes with worse performance, because the Java libraries rely on new JVM bytecodes and intrisic APIs.
So the only long term solution, assuming they keep ignoring modern Java, is to rewrite the world in Kotlin.
Arriving there, means that they could just rename ART into KVM and be done with it.
What good is Kotlin's FFI to Java, if everything that you have at your disposal are out-of-date java libraries?
Even the new desugaring being done in R8 and D8 can only go as far as what ART is capable of, sometimes with worse performance, because the Java libraries rely on new JVM bytecodes and intrisic APIs.
So the only long term solution, assuming they keep ignoring modern Java, is to rewrite the world in Kotlin.
Arriving there, means that they could just rename ART into KVM and be done with it.