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by Jacquass12321 5168 days ago
using what was considered Sun's open, but in some ways restricted, code in a way that would offer little benefit to struggling company that had invested tens of millions of dollars developing Java and its community over more than a decade.

Only speaking for myself, but I wouldn't touch java if it wasn't the language for android development. I'm hard pressed to believe the attention and new developer interest android is bringing to java will hurt the language.
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option_greek 5168 days ago
Especially on the mobile side, where it was already dying at the time. However java was extremely popular on server side and desktops for enterprise projects.
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pjmlp 5168 days ago
s/was/is/
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huggyface 5168 days ago
Only speaking for myself, but I wouldn't touch java if it wasn't the language for android development.

As an Android developer and, I have to confess, advocate, I have always found Android's Java origins to have been a mistake. It is an unlikable language that did nothing to further the platform, but brought a lot of resource expense with it. I honestly wish Oracle wins this suit and Google gets a sunsetting period to actually bake out a credible NDK API (e.g. no JInvoke BS).

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