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Free Software Foundation announces a Librephone initiative to develop a fully free and open source smartphone (liliputing.com)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't the default for Android nowadays Kotlin? Which, yes, still runs on the JVM, but the language itself is much nicer designed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes. I have heard it is much nicer since last time I tried it.

    I might give it another try sometime, if AOSP survives what Google is doing to it, and my dream Linux phone still isn't ready yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I've used it for backend development not Android so I wouldn't know how that's improved (presumably you still have to deal with any Android idiosyncrasies), but I definitely loved it. Just knowing if something can be null or not is already awesome. Same thing I like about Swift, the language iOS uses.

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