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I think Go will be released for Android next year. Maybe other languages too. It is a huge legal risk for Android not to have a fallback from Java.


I love Go, but it is a systems language (a C replacement), not a UI language. That's not even my opinion, that's how they market it.


Actually, Go would be great for GUI programming, precisely because it has a concurrency model that doesn't suck, and GUIs are almost always concurrent. Remember that Go's concurrency model is a descendant of CSP which Rob Pike first used in Squeak, a language designed exclusively for building GUIs: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/squeak/


I doubt that will happen but would love to see it




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