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by int_19h 3325 days ago
And yet Microsoft did .NET Native precisely to target mobile platforms.

Why do you think that natively compiled Kotlin would be slower than Go, anyway?

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The difference being (I assume), that Microsoft has ownership of the entire .Net stdlib. The current android framework relies heavily on the java stdlib, which means that any attempt at a different language would have to bring a full rewrite of the framework itself.