On: Why it’s hard to find Android developers

[lmm]

Scala runs on Android and is the most satisfying language I've ever worked in. (Admittedly you still have to call some pretty terrible APIs, but those are the platform APIs - that part would be the same in Go or anything else).

[buro9 → lmm]

I have this almost dream-like hope that Google will encapsulate all of the Android APIs in a proxy layer in Go with much nicer APIs.

That we'll be able to have a cleaner interface to the platform, and have access to a better toolchain and programming environment.

I doubt it will happen, but one can hope.

[frowaway001 → buro9]

I think the Android team will hardly consider supporting another Java 1.0-like language progress.