anandroiddev's comments

On: AirPods

[anandroiddev]

You _could_ buy two sets to get around this limitation.

[devopsproject → anandroiddev]

or not

On: Vapor: a type-safe web framework for Swift

[anandroiddev]

You can build a mobile app in Go, for both Android and iOS.

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile

[jb1991 → anandroiddev]

I didn't say you can't do it. I said, try to do it. The phrase "general purpose" must be stretched considerably in such a case.

[anandroiddev → jb1991]

Is there a language you _do_ consider "general purpose"?

[jb1991 → anandroiddev]

Yes. More than one, actually.

On: Why Did Symbolics Fail? (2009)

[anandroiddev]

Are you asking about the proprietary ARM instruction set extension for speeding up interpreting Java bytecodes? It failed because JITs were faster, so as soon as devices had enough RAM/Flash/CPU to JIT they stopped using Jazelle.

On: Android: The Land That Python Forgot

[anandroiddev]

Great talk, thanks for posting it!

I really like how thoroughly you cover the problems with and potential work-arounds for using a non-Java language with Android. Your analysis applies to many other languages besides Python. I wonder if it would be worth making a language-neutral version of the talk.