rohandhruva
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Comment · 10 months ago
The point being made above is that if data is turned off, you can no longer receive calls made over WhatsApp.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Haha, non-GC languages power the GUIs on Android fyi. Jetpack compose is powered by Skia. Chromium is powered by Skia. Skia is C++.
Skia is not something you use to write apps: it's a graphics engine, essentially something you use to draw polygons on the screen.
> Why are you attacking me instead of defending your stance. All are allowed to have opinions and I am allowed to have one
I apologize if any of this sounded like an attack. I was trying to be funny with that meme-like sentence formation, but I don't profess to disparage anyone's skills or opinions.
> I dream of Linux-desktop kinda situation where you can program in any language you want, where you are not hindered by any platform/framework, where you have complete freedom
Linux desktop is certainly not the dream world you describe. Practically, you _have_ to pick a toolkit: one of GTK / KDE / Qt / electron / etc. Maybe it helps to think of Android's toolkit (Views or Compose) as one of those.
Comment · 3 years ago
> There's a reason Chrome is mostly written in C++.
And for that same reason, you don't see many apps do the same thing. Any time Chrome needs to request a permission (access files, location, etc), it _has_ to use the system-provided Java APIs.
> Even Google's own Flutter uses a C++ engine to run Dart applications.
As do most games, so you can essentially think of Flutter as a game engine that renders apps.
> Android's JVM system is a collection of Java wrappers around C++ libraries.
As others have mentioned, this is very much not the case.
Comment · 3 years ago
Tell me you've never done any Android development, without telling me...
This is such a low-effort "take" without any effort to justify _why_ you'd want something like this. There's a high amount of impedance mismatch trying to write GUIs in a non-GC language like Rust which _has_ to run on what's essentially a Java VM (ART).
At least with a language like Go, it somewhat makes sense, and has been attempted: https://gioui.org/
All this Java/Kotlin bashing is getting really old, especially for a forum like this one.
Comment · 8 years ago
To add to what dragonwriter said, weekend evening tickets at my local Cinemark theatre is $14.50 for a 2D movie in its first or second week.
Comment · 11 years ago
Way to stay on the point there.
Comment · 12 years ago
Do you mind sharing why you still use Yahoo Mail, let alone paying to use it? (serious question)
Comment · 12 years ago
Can you share what things it gets wrong? I have been trying to look that up even since I watched the movie, but can't find anything useful.
Comment · 12 years ago
This bug has nothing to do with timeline freshness: the bug affected developers and not users. If you're having issues with the timeline, please report an issue here: https://www.facebook.com/help/181495968648557