Side topic, I would love to see it become easier in general for applications to be developed on mobile platforms.
I am not a big fan of Kotlin but I'd love to be able to write a mobile application that uses native window library in Rust or C++.
Same goes for Apple.
But their platforms are so locked down that no matter what language you pick, you always end up having to write _some_ Kotlin/Swift to connect it to the native UI elements or register background services or whatever.
I don't know if it would have been the case, but I wonder if the Windows phone would have been more open to different development sources than Android or iOS. Linux powered devices are cool but sadly they don't have the years of polish and apps required to make them practical daily drivers.
I am not a big fan of Kotlin but I'd love to be able to write a mobile application that uses native window library in Rust or C++.
Same goes for Apple.
But their platforms are so locked down that no matter what language you pick, you always end up having to write _some_ Kotlin/Swift to connect it to the native UI elements or register background services or whatever.
I don't know if it would have been the case, but I wonder if the Windows phone would have been more open to different development sources than Android or iOS. Linux powered devices are cool but sadly they don't have the years of polish and apps required to make them practical daily drivers.