Running D in the Java VM

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 12:45:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-11-22 06:30, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>  that Google leaves to the developers the effort of
>> creating the JNI wrappers themselves, instead of providing a 
>> nice C++
>> API for them.
>
> I guess they want their developers to use Java. Otherwise they 
> would have made C++ a first class citizens and not force C++ to 
> go through Java.

Certainly, that is also one of the reasons why they have come up 
with Renderscript and are now moving to native compiled Java post 
KitKat.

I don't have any issue with Java and do like the language, but it 
has lost its place if you care about portable code across mobile 
platforms.

Hence why I am using C++, as it is the only common language 
across all SDKs thus requiring minimal setup to get going.


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Paulo