Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
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Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
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Re: Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
#2I agree that Google should add more languages to android. And while Scala is a great language, it's very complex - so it won't benefit many of the less skilled users.
A better language would be something with the simplicity and power of python, but with good performance.Groovy could be one such language.
Re: Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
#3My bet is for golang.
Re: Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
#4I think there are better selections than groovy to be the next language supported on Android.
Re: Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
#5I agree that Google should add more languages to android. And while Scala is a great language, it's very complex - so it won't benefit many of the less skilled users. A better language would be something with the simplicity and power of python, but with good performance.Groovy could be one such language.
It would be a mass experiment on Functional Programming acceptance ;)
Re: Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
#6I agree that Google should add more languages to android. And while Scala is a great language, it's very complex - so it won't benefit many of the less skilled users. A better language would be something with the simplicity and power of python, but with good performance.Groovy could be one such language.
Scala is not complex in terms of the language design. Most of features [or complexity] come from the libraries.
Re: Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
#7Make golang for Android and I'm yours.
Re: Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
#8My bet is for golang.
Current design of Android makes any non-JVM language a rather illogical and problematic choice.
Writing JNI bridges for everything and reboxing costs would be prohibitive.
Re: Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
#9I agree that Google should add more languages to android. And while Scala is a great language, it's very complex - so it won't benefit many of the less skilled users. A better language would be something with the simplicity and power of python, but with good performance.Groovy could be one such language.
Scala is not complex in terms of the language design. Most of features [or complexity] come from the libraries.
That doesn't do much to make it a great choice, though. In particular, Scala can be a fair bit trickier in terms of knowing your memory profile.
Though, I doubt it is much worse than Java these days.
Re: Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android
#10I would be happy with Java 7/8.