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Rust is almost/ready for Android and iOS, granted that the language itself is still in a state of flux:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-andr...

More recently:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-June/010323...

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-ios

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It sounds like Rust, right now, can build a library that you can use in an NDK app. Go, right now, can build a service or utility that you can use in any Android app.

http://goo.gl/mkCaJd

It isn't integrated, and as they note as one of the gaps, doesn't currently support CGO (meaning you can't compile C code or libraries in with your Go executable), but it has worked quite well for some time.

You are still stuck using the GUI toolkits of the platforms in their native tongues. I think Qt and Mono (so C++ and C# respectively) are the only toolkits that support both of them with one code base.

Perhaps not so much a Serious UI Toolkit(TM), but anything that eventually compiles down to GL would work too. This is how play-clj does it: binding to libgdx, which eventually calls some OpenGL methods.

While I did jokingly say "Serious UI Toolkit", there's more than a few awesome applications on Android that have very, very simple UI widget requirements. Particularly games, which according to the article, they're focusing on.

JUCE also does.

http://www.juce.com/

Kivy does too.

http://kivy.org/

Rust is a browser development language. Maybe he doesn't want to bother with memory management. Besides, is there a modern IDE for Rust (automated refactoring etc.)?

>Rust is a browser development language.

That's a ridiculous assertion.

> Maybe he doesn't want to bother with memory management.

Who is "he"? The poster michael was replying to said s/he was waiting for Rust to be viable.

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