Hacker News Reader

The day Androïd will be written in go, we will see a significant performance boost and battery lifetime extension. I don't program for Androïd just because I can't bare eclipse. An IDE as simple and efficient as QtCreator would generate a conversion tsunami.

View on HN

The day when Google supports Android native app development in Golang, will be the day when Golang goes mainstream. But I don't bet on this thing happening.

Nonsense. You would hate Android written in Go, because of the GC pauses. Dalvik has a concurrent garbage collector; Go has a stop-the-world one.

Only because that's all that's been implemented. They're well aware of GC and compiler optimizations being a target for future versions of Go.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com