On Wednesday 7. June 2017, Dima Tisnek wrote: > Just wanted to weigh in here. > > There's a bunch of JVM languages out there, Java 1.6, 1.7, 8, Clojure, > Groovy, Scala, Ceylon, and now there is Kotlin too. They introduce new > syntax, add a run time library, and ultimately target same run time > and assume/allow for reusing other Java code. Kotlin is neither novel > nor amazing. It will win over it's share of developers, but it's not > nearly as radical as Swift in obj-c world.
Thinking about newer languages from the main players, I wondered if there was a way to write applications in Dart on Android, and it seems that Flutter is the thing to look at: https://flutter.io/ > There was Jython (evaluated Python bytecode "in Java" at runtime) and > now there's VOC (translates Python bytecode to Java bytecode). I think VOC is doing source code to Java bytecode now. Russell will correct one of us, I'm sure. ;-) David _______________________________________________ Mobile-sig mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-sig
