[rohandhruva]

> Haha, non-GC languages power the GUIs on Android fyi. Jetpack compose is powered by Skia. Chromium is powered by Skia. Skia is C++.

Skia is not something you use to write apps: it's a graphics engine, essentially something you use to draw polygons on the screen.

> Why are you attacking me instead of defending your stance. All are allowed to have opinions and I am allowed to have one

I apologize if any of this sounded like an attack. I was trying to be funny with that meme-like sentence formation, but I don't profess to disparage anyone's skills or opinions.

> I dream of Linux-desktop kinda situation where you can program in any language you want, where you are not hindered by any platform/framework, where you have complete freedom

Linux desktop is certainly not the dream world you describe. Practically, you _have_ to pick a toolkit: one of GTK / KDE / Qt / electron / etc. Maybe it helps to think of Android's toolkit (Views or Compose) as one of those.

[ireallywantthat]

> Skia is not something you use to write apps: it's a graphics engine, essentially something you use to draw polygons on the screen.

So, AOSP team can obviously create Rust framework ontop of Skia(or tinyskia,femtovg,etc.), make Android APIs available in Rust, Create proper widget framework and let us create Android Applications written entirely in Rust.

> Linux desktop is certainly not the dream world you describe. Practically, you _have_ to pick a toolkit: one of GTK / KDE / Qt / electron / etc. Maybe it helps to think of Android's toolkit (Views or Compose) as one of those.

I know what I am talking about. This is exactly the freedom that I was talking about. I am able to choose any framework/toolkit I want. If i don't want any framework, that's fine too. You don't have that freedom in Android. Everything has to be routed via Java ecosystem that AOSP constructed.