Smart pointers instead of GC?

[Dicebot]

On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 02:59:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 2/3/14, 5:51 PM, Manu wrote:
>> I'd have trouble disagreeing more; Android is the essence of 
>> why Java
>> should never be used for user-facing applications.
>> Android is jerky and jittery, has random pauses and lockups 
>> all the
>> time, and games on android always jitter and drop frames. Most 
>> high-end
>> games on android now are written in C++ as a means to mitigate 
>> that
>> problem, but then you're back writing C++. Yay!
>> iOS is silky smooth by comparison to Android.
>
> Kinda difficult to explain the market success of Android.
>
> Andrei

Market success is probably 10% about technology and 90% about PR, 
filling the niche, finding right time etc.