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>It has grown under Oracle -- both in openness and adoption.

No it has not, basically Sun did all the hard work on this areas.

If Google looses (lets hope not) the lawsuit vs Oracle, I hope they give Oracle what they deserve and switch to C#. Either way I am not using Java (I don't dislike it!) for anything outside of Android.

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golang is the way

Its not possible to use only Go for Android application development. The goal of both the Go team and the Android team is to make Go a candidate for JNI development as an alternate to C/C++. The rest of the Android app, especially the UI can only be written in Java.

It is possible, maybe not now, but very possible later.

UI just is graphics painting using OpenGL ES.

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