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skohan on April 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift Generics Evolution

It's not perfect, but it's loads better than using something like JNI.

pjmlp on April 15, 2019 | [–]

JNI was made that way on purpose, because Sun wanted to discourage native code, as Mark Reinhold already mentioned a few times on Java conferences.

Panama will thankfully fix that.

https://jdk.java.net/panama/

Just don't expect it to ever be supported on Android.

But they surely will,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines#...

saagarjha on April 15, 2019 | [–]

Yeah, I can see it being a whole lot worse ;)

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