Google might replace Java with Swift
 

Google’s long running legal row with Oracle over its Java operating system could force it to replace it with Apple’s open source Swift.

Apple made Swift open source last year and apparently Google, Facebook and Uber are interested in making it a “first class” language for Android.

Although the idea is that Swift will not replace Java, at least at first, it seems that Google has had a gutsful of Oracle’s attempts to screw money out of the search engine outfit.

Swift was created as a replacement for Objective C, and is pretty easy to code. It was introduced at WWDC 2014, and has major support from IBM as well as a variety of major apps like Lyft, Pixelmator and Vimeo that have all rebuilt iOS apps with Swift.

However it would be a bit of a mess at first. Google would also have to make its entire standard library Swift-ready, and support the language in APIs and SDKs. Some low-level Android APIs are C++, which Swift cannot bridge to. Higher level Java APIs would have to be re-written.

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