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slantedview on Oct 31, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Andy Rubin Leaving Google

Java has the biggest community of application developers, so the decision made perfect sense.

xorcist on Oct 31, 2014 [–]

How much Java is Android, really? Knowledge of Java gets you nowhere if you want to develop apps for Android.

It may be very close to Java the syntax but it's very far from Java the language or Java the runtime. And the syntax is not really the appealing part of Java.

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