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by pjmlp 1737 days ago
Java compiles to machine code on Android, via JIT and AOT compilers.
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dataflow 1737 days ago
I'm aware. Windows has NGen too. But that's not what makes people call Java or C# a native language, or apps based on those native apps.
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pjmlp 1737 days ago
Native is overloaded, however Java is the "native" language of the Android SDK, and on Windows unless one has a morbid pleasure to still use MFC, ATL, bare bones Win32, or use C++/WinRT like ATL is fashionable again, .NET UI toolkits will be the way to go.

Or are you going to argue that Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft Store, Microsoft Blend, Office AddIns, Power Automate Desktop aren't native?

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dataflow 1737 days ago
> unless one has a morbid pleasure to still use MFC, ATL, bare bones Win32, or use C++/WinRT like ATL is fashionable again, .NET UI toolkits will be the way to go.

I'm not sure how the discussion turned from "native" to "the way to go".

I get the feeling like you're jumping all over HN trying to reply to me at every comment you find because... you took "not native" as some kind of insult to tools you like/consider superior?

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pjmlp 1737 days ago
Most of the time, I don't bother to read the author, so it is a matter of chance that those posts are yours.

I am jumping because the distinctions you are making aren't the ones that users care about.

So each one can go on their merry lives with their own dictionary version.

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