Android is in limbo, we need better free open source alternative.

ChadNauseam 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Android Open Source Project is awesome. It's not hard to compile it yourself and run it on a pixel 9. The issue is the hardware imo. (And some of the apps in AOSP really suck, but the actual OS is great imo)

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nicoburns 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The userspace being tied to the JVM is a massive pain. Certainly it's a lot harder to bind to than any other OS's system libraries.

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brabel 8 hours ago | parent [-]

How so?? JVM bytecode should be much easier to bind to, as the existence of JVM alternative runtimes for nearly every language shows.

	▲	nicoburns 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unless you're using a language that's specifically compile-to-jvm (e.g. Java, Kotlin or similar), almost nobody is using those JVM alternative runtimes. They're usually second-class runtimes that don't run the entire ecosystem of the target langauge. React Native runs JavaScript in a separate JS VM, Flutter is compiling Dart to native code with emdedded runtime, and Rust UI code also compiles to a native binary. The "lingua franca" for language bindings is the C ABI which every other OS's platform libraries (Win32/Cocoa/GTK) support.

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testdelacc1 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Account created one hour ago just to make this comment. Make it on your real account.

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suddenlybananas 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Have you considered that people may join HackerNews who were not already on it?

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freedomben 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Also usernames/handles can be surprisingly hard. It seems reasonable to me that people would pick something related to what they are thinking about at the time.

	▲	izacus 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What's way more likely is that they've created a sock puppet account though.