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Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by codesink on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:16PM (#2585147)
I think google is working to move Android to Go as soon as possible; Rob Pike replied to a related question with "I cannot talk about it" and that sounds like a good clue :)

Go binaries already run on Android/ARM, the higher level code is the one that's missing.

That would bring great boost in performance (compilers are available for both x86 and ARM) without adding any complexity on the language side (Go is a cool language).

Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by jraines on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:23PM (#2585177)
Just went to Google to see if I could find anything relating to this possibility, and was immediately reminded how annoying it is, with respect to search, that they named the language "Go".
Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by codesink on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:32PM (#2585203)
They managed to optimize their golang.org homepage to get the position #5 on the word "go".

They must be good at SEO.

BTW the video I mentioned is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i0hat7pdpk&feature=playe...

(at the end during Q&A)

Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by fs111 on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:59PM (#2585532)
Well, they own the crawler and the index, they will know, what to do...
Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by reinhardt on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @09:07PM (#2586220)
It's not that funny any more if you have to explain it ;)
Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by VMG on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:52PM (#2585279)
I think everybody should just call it "golang"
Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by flogic on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:44PM (#2585247)
It helps to include the words "lang" or "language" in the search. Kinda frustrating.
Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by uriel on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @07:41PM (#2586021)
There is a "Custom Search Engine" for Go: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search
Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by jdq on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @05:30PM (#2585641)
Interesting. Possibly to skirt the Oracle/Java mess? If so, I think it's a great idea. iOS/Obj-C has shown that devs will use a new (to them) language if need be.
Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by jemeshsu on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @09:25PM (#2586258)
With Golang on AppEngine, I can see a momentum within Google pushing for Golang for Android. Rob's comment sounds very positive. I'm guessing we will see something at Google IO next year.