[devx]

As we've seen with the recent patent case that reached the Supreme Court, once again because the Federal Court overturned the lower Court's ruling, it seems the Appeals Courts are a lot more inclined to be pro-patents, while the lower Courts (other than the East-Texas ones) and the Supreme Court aren't.

That being said, I hope this forces Google to deprecate Java on Android and start pushing developers to using Go. They should've been working on this since the trial with Oracle started, and not rest on their laurels.

[chroem]

Ugh, but Go is slow compared to Java and it's missing a lot of features.

Why not something like Mono? It's faster than their current Dalvik/ ART VM and it would allow for many more languages to be used natively than just Java or Go.

[rubinelli]

The last time I looked, Mono was in an even more precarious legal situation than Harmony, but who knows? Since Google is already paying Microsoft, they might just work something out.

[pron]

Or just reach some licensing agreement with Oracle, which would finally make Android real Java. That would be a big win for the Android community: better performance, better compatibility, more supported languages.

[yawz]

Has there been any work going on wrt Go for Android?

[andreis1]

This needs to happen; I doubt Larry has the balls for such a decision, though.