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Don't forget the whole C library ecosystem, which IMO is much more useful.



This can be somewhat annoying to work with in Swift, though it’s gotten better recently.


It's not perfect, but it's loads better than using something like JNI.


JNI was made that way on purpose, because Sun wanted to discourage native code, as Mark Reinhold already mentioned a few times on Java conferences.

Panama will thankfully fix that.

https://jdk.java.net/panama/

Just don't expect it to ever be supported on Android.

But they surely will,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines#...


Yeah, I can see it being a whole lot worse ;)




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