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What could this mean for Python?

• fpgeek 14y ago
  Is there an argument that some of the patents in play here are also a potential concern for Python? Do non-JVM Python implementations share relevant implementation details with Dalvik?
  • alanav 14y ago
    You're right, but my question was more about if there's any possibility that Google bring more support to the development of apps other than using for example SL4A, since the recent legal problems with Java. But I get your point, this means a major change in the Dalvik infrastructure.
    • nknight 14y ago
      There's no particular reason a Python-to-Dalvik compiler couldn't be built, though it'd look very different from CPython and likely any other current Python implementation. Given Google's apparent predilections, however, I think a more likely outcome of the hypothetical scenario you seem to be positing ("switch from Java to something else") would be a migration toward Dart, JavaScript, Go, or some combination thereof. I don't see that scenario as being particularly likely, though.