News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on “Swift will be open source later this year”. Parent comment

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by Tloewald on Monday June 08, 2015 @07:22PM (#9683134)
> Why would I ever care about Go for Android when I can write apps in Kotlin

Power consumption.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by pjmlp on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @03:55AM (#9684553)
Since Android Java is compiled to native code on installation time, I don't see any benefit using Go in terms of power consumption.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by jophde on Monday June 08, 2015 @08:35PM (#9683416)
I guarantee you could write a more power efficient app using the Android SDK versus Go in the NDK.
[ Parent | on HN ]