What are we going to do about mobile?

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 13/04/2017 10:30 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 13 April 2017 at 10:12, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 10:59 +0100, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
>> wrote:
>>> […]
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>>> Considering it was created in 2014, I think we're safe implementing
>>> extern(JNI) support either which ways.
>>>
>>> Although a little strange since nobody has completed a full JNI
>>> implementation yet!
>>
>> JNI will be around for decades because of the way deprecation works in
>> Javaland. I suspect though that if Charles gets the support of the JNA
>> folk to back his JNR basis for this proposal, it can all happen quite
>> quickly. JDK10 being possible though JDK11 more likely.
>>
>
> It may be of worthy note that gcc has dropped the Java frontend (gcj)
> and thus the JNI from C/C++ in the compiler.
>
> If JNI can work as a library, then there's no problem, however.

Tried as a library, not easy to get right, compiler would be a good deal 
better.