alt Hacker NewsWhy is mobile development so shitty compared to PC? Why cant you make an hello world in asm for a mobile device?
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A ton of native apps are written on mobile. On desktop, there is a trend of shipping a full browser together with a goddamn webapp instead of making a proper desktop app. I wouldn't say that desktop is more successful there...
It's all about where the stable ABI exists. You can do anything in practice, but if you stray off the happy path it will result in pain. On PC OS, everything used C (or in Linux, syscall) ABI. On android the ABI is java based, and on iOS it's objc/swift based. These are deliberate choices and while they make some use cases more difficult, they are optimized for the use cases the companies care about. I'm personally preferential to a language agnostic IPC boundary being the abi, but that has its own cons as well.
You can. It would be about as bad as writing hello world in assembly for PC, which is why nobody does it.