On 23 March 2011 14:32, Josh Berry <tae...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Yes, you're right, I should have mentioned market push. It's rather > likely > > (to me, anyway) that java gained quite a bit of traction due to Sun's > > cheerleading of it, along with the uptake by i.e. IBM relatively early > on. > > This been my belief for a while. I, of course, have nothing to back > this up. :) > > > Google adopts or makes a new programming language to replace java for > > android development to avoid some lawsuits, and via that route we'll get > a > > java.next. Huh. Cool theory. > > I simply meant more that I feel like Android is pulling in more new > "java" developers than any other technology out there at the moment. > For a long time, web development seemed to be the big pull to any > technology. Now, it appears that "app" development is the big pull > and that appears dominated by obj-c and java for Android. If someone > were to release a compelling dev kit for Android that had a different > language, I would imagine it would gain traction rather quickly. > > c'mon people, please at least *try* and make it hard for me!
https://github.com/jberkel/android-plugin Okay, so SBT doesn't exactly meet the definition of "dev kit", but it does work rather nicely to create IntelliJ projects that can happily make use of the IDE's Android plugin. :) > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com>mail: kevin.wri...@scalatechnology.com vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright twitter: @thecoda "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
