Story: Android's Unlikely Success
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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In the early years of Android, Google had to decide how applications were going to be written for this platform. The only code that they had was JavaScript, right? Because they just needed this demo running and whoever was writing it was writing JavaScript. So when they came in, they said, okay, well, why don't we do multiple languages? They decided on C and C++ because many developers know this language in the real world.
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