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		bb88 on Jan 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go: What we got right, what we got wrong I actually kinda thought that Google should have made Go the default language for android. It could have been a compelling argument to the rest of the world as a reason to use it as a systems language. It's feels like they didn't want to dog food it outside of their servers, though.

iainmerrick on Jan 6, 2024 [–]

Android was already using Java and Dalvik (their JVM variant) at that point, so switching to Go would have been a massive undertaking.

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