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by w8rbt 3325 days ago
I wonder if Android will ever support Go? Seems Google would want to do this.
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Go (like other non-JVM languages) doesn't talk to Java APIs well - the JNI bridge is ugly and adds a severe performance penalty. Short of actually rewriting Android itself, it's probably not going to happen.
I was about to reply that go seems more systems oriented, but on second thought that is really more of a self fulfilling prophecy. With the proper library support I bet go would be a great language for mobile development.
the bigger issue with Go is the binary size