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Re:AirPods on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:38PM (#12446672)
You _could_ buy two sets to get around this limitation.
Re:Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift on Sunday February 21, 2016 @04:25PM (#11146617)
Is there a language you _do_ consider "general purpose"?
Re:Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift on Sunday February 21, 2016 @12:28PM (#11145408)
You can build a mobile app in Go, for both Android and iOS.

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile

Re:Why Did Symbolics Fail? (2009) on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @11:15AM (#7305766)
Are you asking about the proprietary ARM instruction set extension for speeding up interpreting Java bytecodes? It failed because JITs were faster, so as soon as devices had enough RAM/Flash/CPU to JIT they stopped using Jazelle.
Re:Android: The Land That Python Forgot on Sunday November 10, 2013 @12:24AM (#6705355)
Great talk, thanks for posting it!

I really like how thoroughly you cover the problems with and potential work-arounds for using a non-Java language with Android. Your analysis applies to many other languages besides Python. I wonder if it would be worth making a language-neutral version of the talk.