Re:Kotlin, the Swift of Android
by dtech on Monday September 01, 2014 @01:17PM
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Do you have any basis for these claims? Java 8 contains many useful language improvements and Google has shown with Java 7 that it will adopt these (albeit incredibly slowly)
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Remember the Google/Oracle lawsuits over the use of Java technology in Android? Bringing in JVM changes from newer Java releases risks giving Oracle grounds for another lawsuit (covering the patents and whatever copyrights may apply to the new features), and it's not likely Google wants to run that risk.
(This is why the Java 7 features that they have adopted are the "syntactic sugar" that doesn't require JVM changes, and leaves the code running in the phones as-is.)
Re:Kotlin, the Swift of Android
by frowaway001 on Monday September 01, 2014 @01:28PM
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It has only adopted Java 7 features which are either syntactic sugar or library extensions. (E. g. everything where the Java class file version wouldn't have mattered anyway).
Java 8 (and Java 9 and Java 10) are completely different, with huge, mandatory changes to the class file format and the virtual machine.