A Perspective on D from game industry

[Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 13:19:12 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 12:30 +0000, Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
> […]
>> learning the Android API - after all, JDK8 + tooling is 
>> bearable now.
>
> On the other hand Android API is Apache Harmony which is Java 6.
>

Yes I keep forgetting that - wishful thinking maybe.

> Of note: Groovy finally works on Android, so you can use what 
> Java 8
> brings, on Java 6 and Java 7 using Groovy. And note Groovy may 
> be a
> dynamic language, but it is also a static language.

I'll look into it. Perhaps this question is just too broad, but 
if you wanted to develop an application on the Android platform 
right now, what approach would you take? Java, Groovy, web-based?