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A comment on Android’s Commitment to Kotlin. Parent comment

Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by sidlls on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:25AM (#21730721)
The Android ecosystem got popular primarily for two reasons: the massive marketing effort by google and the plentiful dirt-cheap labor market in the kind of development paradigm Android is (awful, bloated Java where desperate $5/hr devs are plentiful).
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Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by izacus on Saturday December 07, 2019 @12:10PM (#21731299)
If any of that would be the cause, Windows Phone would be a massive success.

Don't let your fanboyism blind logical thinking.

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Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by pjmlp on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:51AM (#21734977)
Windows Phone wasn't free beer for OEMs.
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