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by jamieomatthews 4343 days ago
This is a proposal that's starting to get some serious traction.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y9hStonl9wpj-5VM-xWrSTuE...

In theory, Go could absolutely be used for android development

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In theory, anything can be used for Android development.

In reality, the cost of JNI bridging, reboxing objects and the fact that Android APIs heavily use Java objects as parameters makes usage of any non-JVM compatible languages horribly ugly, clunky and rather pointless performance and code-quality wise.