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Re:Rust – Are We Game Yet? by optymizer on Thursday March 16, 2023 @12:43PM (#35184495)
> If you're making Android apps, use Java.

It's Kotlin these days (your point still stands).

I've been trying to (lazily) make games for years. It's hard.

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Re:Rust – Are We Game Yet? by msz-g-w on Friday March 17, 2023 @07:18AM (#35195522)
> your point still stands

But, like, it literally doesn't? The fact that it's a different language nowadays (though still the same runtime?) means that there's no One True Language for Thing X. Times change. Today it's FooLang, but in a couple of years, when the stars align just right, it may be LangBar.

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Re:Rust – Are We Game Yet? by optymizer on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:07PM (#35198939)
Kotlin is weird in that it is fully compatible with Java, so you can reuse all the existing Java libraries, which was the primary argument there.

Embrace-extend-extinguish is a tried and true strategy to overcome entrenched languages, I suppose.

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