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by pjmlp 2559 days ago
So you want to talk about mobiles?

Windows Phone, JavaScript, .NET (VB and C#) and C++.

iOS, JavaScript, Objective-C, C++ and Swift, C only due to BSD stuff.

Android, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, C++, C only due to Linux kernel. Its sucessor. Project Treble drivers use Java and C++. Fuchsia is written in a mixture of Rust, Dart, and C++.

ChromeOS, JavaScript, C++, Rust, C only due to Linux kernel
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Nursie 2559 days ago
> Windows Phone, JavaScript, .NET (VB and C#) and C++.

An irrelevance given their complete lack of market presence.

The rest all have significant underlying C components you've identified. All I'm saying is that's a hardly a 'niche holdout' when it appears to be at the heart of the vast majority of shipping devices.

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pjmlp 2559 days ago
It is, given the amount of usage across the OS stack, which decreases with every OS release.

By the way on iOS, drivers are written in C++.

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