Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by agentjj 3381 days ago
>The possibility of running Scala >=2.12 (or any other language that is committed to Java 8[1]) on Android seems even more remote now

To quote the article: "We've decided to add support for Java 8 language features directly into the current javac and dx set of tools."

The way I'm reading that could (maybe) work, the regular toolchain (javac -> .class files -> dx -> dex file) would get an upgraded dx tool that could take classes with Java 8 bytecode as input. In that case something like Scala (or any compiler that outputs Java 8 bytecode classes) would be just as well supported.