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| Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 07:10 AM EDT |
I have two thoughts on this;
Thumbing the code for a mainframe
utility on a mobile keypad is probably harder than on a command line
editor.
Android is now more popular than Java and the argument for using
the Java language is much weaker.
Dalvik should be broadened to cover
all the Java deployment areas since it is open and free and since it has much
better scalability than Java and uses the more secure Unix and Linux permissions
security system. (This would be a problem for some OS's I could mention, but
those platforms will decline and are not important cross-platform targets for
Dalvik.) It would be a boon to any major user of servers including Google.
There is no real reason on non-mobile-'phone platforms for both a
desktop and Android to be on the same platform. Tablets, netbooks, nettops and
desktops should have Dalvik as a cross-platform utility VM that can reuse mobile
apps as well as adding new app categories suited to other
platforms.
Android and Dalvik need to maintain the Java language
development tools for legacy developers. Google need to add a new language
development platform that gets maximum advantage from the Dalvik architecture
including the byte code. That might be an existing open and free language like
Python, or it might be what open and free is for and be a development beyond an
existing language platform.
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Regards
Ian Al
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