What is the current state of D for android development?

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:45:33 +0100
Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:

> On 28.03.2013 07:13, js.mdnq wrote:
> > I would like to get into writing apps for android and would like to
> > choose D for this if it is mature enough.
> >
> > What is the D progress on the android?
> >
> > I see that at least others are interested but not finding a ton of
> > information:
> >
> > http://forum.dlang.org/thread/20120204203109.26c9a80b@jpf-laptop?page=1
> 
> Please note that native development in Android has a second class
> status.
> 
> Support is only available as a means to bring "legacy" C and C++ code
> to the platform.
> 
> The few Android APIs available to languages outside the Dalvik world
> are actually wrappers around JNI calls.
> 

That's actually something that's been rolling around in my head for
months, and now that it's brought up again, I have to just go ahead and
say it:

What...the *FUCK* is Google thinking???

How is it *possible* that the one company in the word that's been
known, more than any other, for recruiting as many of the supposedly
best and brightest developers in the world as they possibly can,
portrayed by approximately...everyone in the world...as being
practically a developer's utopia, with nary a pointy-hair in sight, and
the streets paved with latte, can be so incredibly dumb as to decide
"Hey, let's make our system API be *JVM-only* (ok, "JVM-knockoff",
whatever, like it even matters) and marginalize native in general, and
shit all over the idea of being anything more than halfway Posix"??
Even *Apple* isn't that goddamn stupid, for crap's sakes, and *Apple*
was never a developer's company, it was run by a dicatoring *salesman*!
A drugged-out fucking *salesman* for fuck's sakes, and even *they*
didn't botch things up *that* badly!

Not only that, but this is the same - apparently schizophrenic -
company that's been trying to push the *Google* **NATIVE** **CLIENT**,
ie NaCl!!

[Just insert a mental image right here of Lewis Black's trademark
freak-out saying "What...the...FUUUCK?!?']

Sheesh.

Sorry, had to get it outta my system...