[RivieraKid]

Web is a platform, so they would need to rewrite half of Android, I don't think it would be worth it, I don't see real benefits of that for users or devs...

I think that Java 8 is a great language, I like it a lot more than Javascript. Go would be great too.

[eropple]

In all seriousness, I just want a C API. I like different languages for different purposes, but C is still the lingua franca. You can have your Go, I can have my C++, the next guy can have his Python.

As-is, native code on Android is a cluster, and even for games it's pretty uncomfortable and filled with Java shims. Kinda gross.

[moystard]

Why would you have Go on a mobile OS as a mobile application development framework?

[weland]

One guy calls the web a language, now someone calls Go a mobile application development framework. Come on, guys, we're programmers, let's call things by their right names. Go is a programming language, and technicalities like goroutines aside, you'd want it pretty much for the same reason why you'd want Java, Objective-C, JavaScript or, Heaven deliver us from the Symbian days, C++: some people think it's a nice language.

Frankly, I'd trade Java for Go any day.

[moystard]

My bad, meant programming language.

[georgemcbay]

I think of Go as being a language and runtime as opposed to a "development framework", but why wouldn't you have it as a mobile OS language, particularly when compared to Java?

I'd love to see Go on Android. I doubt it will happen anytime soon though because it would require an entirely new runtime library environment to really be Go-like, just bridging Go to the existing Android Java APIs via Java<->JNI<->CGO<->Go would result in something very horrible.

[RivieraKid]

I probably wouldn't switch from Java but lots of people want to use Go to make Android apps.

[sheldor]

I'd trade Java for Go in a heartbeat