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		kaba0 on Jan 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust is a hard way to make a web API Also, the OpenJDK is completely open source (even though it is primarily developed by Oracle employees), it’s not like there is any risk in using it. Google is sued because it created a java-copy instead of buying a license from Sun which explicitly required one for mobile devices.

pjmlp on Jan 16, 2021 [–]

And since they doubled down on their Android Java flavour, it is now a major headache to produce modern Java libraries that work on Android.

Even if you castrate yourself to Java 7, whatever works depends pretty much on the Android version.

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