>> This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here.
What reasoning would they have for that? It's an Android stackexchange after all.
It's my main caveat against the stackexchange network, many questions like this one are extremely useful and on-topic but the moderation has some weird standards of whats on-topic and what is not; one of the worst examples is when one particular question is the first result on Google about a common problem but due over-moderation is now closed and nobody can enter updated answers, such is the case for "Is there a tool to convert JavaScript to Typescript?" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14412164/is-there-a-tool...
What reasoning would they have for that? It's an Android stackexchange after all.