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Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by bb88 on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:55PM (#38883960)
I actually kinda thought that Google should have made Go the default language for android. It could have been a compelling argument to the rest of the world as a reason to use it as a systems language.

It's feels like they didn't want to dog food it outside of their servers, though.

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Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by iainmerrick on Saturday January 06, 2024 @05:52AM (#38890342)
Android was already using Java and Dalvik (their JVM variant) at that point, so switching to Go would have been a massive undertaking.
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