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Re:Android development has its own Swift by DCKing on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:51AM (#8068955)
> The article felt like it was trying to rationalize something, like Android needs a Swift.

Android probably doesn't need a Swift as much as iOSX did, but there's still a lot to be gained from having a less verbose programming language (and corresponding platform API). Objective C, despite its older features and unfamiliar syntax, was more expressive already than Java was. With Swift, they removed the legacy and made the syntax familiar.

But I don't think this is the answer. If you debug Scala on Android at least you don't have to make a mental mapping of what the corresponding Java translation of your function would look like. A true new language with good features and 'light' syntax would be great. Google already has such a language: Dart.

But Google has already said that at IO 2014 that Java is the language for Android and it will stay that way.

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Re:Android development has its own Swift by lobo42 on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:59AM (#8068985)
> But I don't think this is the answer. If you debug Scala on Android at least you don't have to make a mental mapping of what > the corresponding Java translation of your function would look like.

Again, this is also not the case with Xtend. See this screencast : https://vimeo.com/38425995

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Re:Android development has its own Swift by DCKing on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @10:06AM (#8069030)
Ah, my apologies. The CoffeeScript metaphor is not completely valid.
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