rohandhruva

The point being made above is that if data is turned off, you can no longer receive calls made over WhatsApp.

> Haha, non-GC languages power the GUIs on Android fyi. Jetpack compose is powered by Skia. Chromium is powered by Skia. Skia is C++.

Skia is not something you use to write apps: it's a graphics engine, essentially something you use to draw polygons on the screen.

> Why are you attacking me instead of defending your stance. All are allowed to have opinions and I am allowed to have one

I apologize if any of this sounded like an attack. I was trying to be funny with that meme-like sentence formation, but I don't profess to disparage anyone's skills or opinions.

> I dream of Linux-desktop kinda situation where you can program in any language you want, where you are not hindered by any platform/framework, where you have complete freedom

Linux desktop is certainly not the dream world you describe. Practically, you _have_ to pick a toolkit: one of GTK / KDE / Qt / electron / etc. Maybe it helps to think of Android's toolkit (Views or Compose) as one of those.

> There's a reason Chrome is mostly written in C++.

And for that same reason, you don't see many apps do the same thing. Any time Chrome needs to request a permission (access files, location, etc), it _has_ to use the system-provided Java APIs.

> Even Google's own Flutter uses a C++ engine to run Dart applications.

As do most games, so you can essentially think of Flutter as a game engine that renders apps.

> Android's JVM system is a collection of Java wrappers around C++ libraries.

As others have mentioned, this is very much not the case.

Tell me you've never done any Android development, without telling me...

This is such a low-effort "take" without any effort to justify _why_ you'd want something like this. There's a high amount of impedance mismatch trying to write GUIs in a non-GC language like Rust which _has_ to run on what's essentially a Java VM (ART).

At least with a language like Go, it somewhat makes sense, and has been attempted: https://gioui.org/

All this Java/Kotlin bashing is getting really old, especially for a forum like this one.

To add to what dragonwriter said, weekend evening tickets at my local Cinemark theatre is $14.50 for a 2D movie in its first or second week.

Way to stay on the point there.

Do you mind sharing why you still use Yahoo Mail, let alone paying to use it? (serious question)

Can you share what things it gets wrong? I have been trying to look that up even since I watched the movie, but can't find anything useful.

This bug has nothing to do with timeline freshness: the bug affected developers and not users. If you're having issues with the timeline, please report an issue here: https://www.facebook.com/help/181495968648557