alt Hacker NewsGoogle basically played a J++ with Android Java, with Kotlin as their .NET/C#.
At least they are forced to partially update Android Java, now Java 17 subset, so that Kotlin can keep up with was is mostly deployed at Maven Central.
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xxs • yesterday at 7:22 PM
That's a proper late 90s reference, props!
cyberax • yesterday at 7:47 PM
> Google basically played a J++ with Android Java
No, they didn't. Google happily used regular Java until Oracle played Oracle. Then Google stopped updating the supported Java language version and started diversifying away from Java.
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Pretty sure they did a J# ;). But I agree that Kotlin is their C#.
The JDK and JVM has advanced so fast while android has been lagging. It's pretty frustrating, especially because google has been so slow to pull in changes from later java versions.
A part of me wishes that android would just dump their hokey dalvik, ART, and other BS and just use the OpenJDK or a fork of the OpenJDK with whatever special sauce they need. A lot of the project Leyden stuff lends itself nicely to maybe someday being able to run real java on android.
Edit: Apparently android is forking OpenJDK, since Android 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Nougat