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by mynameisjohn 3888 days ago
can't tell if troll
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To be fair, I can't really tell from the website what this is and why I would want it ("doesn't Android already have a JVM?"), and Kotlin could easily be defined as "a lightweight alternative to Java that runs on Android" as well!
In the first line of "About Avian" on the homepage:

> Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class lbrary [sic] designed to provide a useful subset of Java’s features