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by pjmlp 4291 days ago
I agree, but sharing code between platforms is what I do, as I want to target both Android and Windows Phone on my hobby coding. So the common language winner to both SDKs is C++.

The ticket was created back when I was still into Go and was wishing for first level support on Android.

Still I think it would be nice if it would be supported for those that like the language.

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Have you looked at RemObjects Elements (http://www.remobjects.com/elements/)? With that (commercial) toolchain, you can write in either C# or Oxygene (an Object Pascal-derived language), and compile to .NET IL, JVM bytecode (and from there to Dex bytecode for Android), and even native code running atop the ObjC runtime for iOS and Mac.
I know then from the time they used to collaborate with Embarcadero. Although I left Turbo Pascal/Delphi when Windows 3.x was still actual, I kept on following Borland.

What I am doing are very basic hobby projects, when private life allows for, which is seldom the case nowadays. You can check some of them with my nick at GitHub.

If I would be doing a commercial app, I would be buying either Qt or Xamarin, mainly because they are better known and using Pascal like languages (except maybe Ada) is no longer relevant on my CV.