• zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    please make something affordable. I want to be able to make mobile apps without being forced to the Java/swift shit duo.

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      5 days ago

      The app ecosystem will be wild, if this succeeds.

      I hate Java so much, and so deeply, that I do not develop quick handy little Android apps.

      But if I can use a less obnoxious language, the world is going to see some mobile apps for tracking all the push-ups I’m not doing, and all the salads I intend to eat.

      Edit: Android is already a huge success, by any meaure, of course. But it can get better without Java.

      Edit 2: I do know that cross compilers exist. They still smell like Java, though.

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        5 days ago

        Isn’t the default for Android nowadays Kotlin? Which, yes, still runs on the JVM, but the language itself is much nicer designed.

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          Yes. I have heard it is much nicer since last time I tried it.

          I might give it another try sometime, if AOSP survives what Google is doing to it, and my dream Linux phone still isn’t ready yet.