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0 pointspjmlp9y ago0 comments

> they'll assume it's a legacy product suffering from chronic under-investment.

Or Android.

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bitmapbrother9y ago· 2 in thread

Hopefully they'll ditch Java and go with a superior language.

pjmlpOP9y ago

I don't believe, given what they repeat at every Google IO when people ask about it.

Also I don't have any issue with Java as I do like the language and use it since JDK 1.0.1.

My issue is with Android Java, a forked version of Java with cherry picked features of Java 6, 7 and now 8, just because Google didn't want to pay Sun.

A version that will be even harder to write portable code when Java 9 and 10 come out.

bitmapbrother9y ago

Or perhaps they know better than to release confidential information about their roadmap?

I believe Google is running out of solutions to further optimize Android because they keep running into self inflicted Java roadblocks. If Fuchsia is any indication of their future efforts their next major overhaul will support multiple first class languages.

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st3v3r9y ago

Presumably they'd know that they applied for an Android job.

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