My Android project nearing beta

Chris wendlec at tcd.ie
Wed Jan 8 14:23:49 UTC 2020


On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 at 14:13:58 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

>> 2. The new JVM default language for Android is Kotlin. How 
>> will you handle that?
>
> Doesn't affect anything as far as I can tell, except possibly 
> slightly awkward syntax when compared side by side with stuff 
> like kotlin extension methods - even my bindings generator 
> (which you don't have to use btw) doesn't look at the source, 
> instead pulling the data right out of the compiled class files. 
> Since kotlin compiles to the same thing as java, it should work 
> the same way.
>

Cool that you can take the compiled classes directly. Btw, how 
will D for Android handle multi-threading / coroutines? Will the 
coroutines have to be on the Java / Kotlin side of things or is 
it possible to run them in D too?




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