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Re:Eskil Steenberg – I've had it with the security orthodoxy... by Xeamek on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @08:20PM (#44729754)
Not to mention him saying no one writes java anymore when it literally powers world's most popular OS (android) and double digit percentage of internet backends
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Re:Eskil Steenberg – I've had it with the security orthodoxy... by robaye on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @04:42PM (#44739276)
Isn't android's actual core in C? I thought java was just the ui...
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Re:Eskil Steenberg – I've had it with the security orthodoxy... by Xeamek on Thursday July 31, 2025 @08:35AM (#44745014)
core (as in kernel) is running linux kernel which is C, yes.

But java is not 'just UI' - majority of user space apps run java (or jvm, to be precise), as well as tons of system services, to the point where you can't actually do a lot of android API calls from native code, because a lot of logic is written in java(or kotlin) code, and not just java being wrapper around native code.

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