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by tooFastFuckYou 3325 days ago
Heaven forbid they just support Swift instead.
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You'd need to rewrite Swift to run on the Android VM (a big undertaking) or fork the Android frameworks to work well with Swift. That's a much bigger undertaking than supporting a language which was created for the JVM and specifically made for interoperability with Java.