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Greetings MS refugees!

Come to Android, where engineering decisions are made with taste, all the way down.

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I've bought the phone and installed the developer kit.

Will I be able to use g++ >= 4.6 to code natively to OpenGL at some point?

Well, "at some point" being whenever you get around to installing the NDK.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

Cool! Someone (who ought to know) told me that wasn't possible. Thanks for correcting my misimpression.

Trust but verify.

Except for the "g++ >= 4.6" part, AFAIK.

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html Android GCC now supports the Bionic C library and provides a convenient way of building native libraries and applications for the Android platform. Refer to the documentation of the -mandroid and -mbionic options for details on building native code. At the moment, Android support is enabled only for ARM.

I haven't tried it myself yet, know of a reason it wouldn't work?

taste... a statement that is high on sugary content but low on nutritional value.

Are you denying the existence of aesthetics in software engineering? If not, then how about the correlation between skill and said taste?

I'm not denying it -- I just took issue with your sweeping statement. Taste when talking about programming languages, frameworks and so on, is individual (like everything else in life where "taste" is involved).

Since Microsoft's Server and Tools Business is a 1+ billion dollar business it obviously tastes good to quite a few people.

Ah--suggesting the question "what is the correlation between having taste and (collectively) being able to spend a billion dollars on tools when there are equivalents to be had for free?"

What about the decision to use Java?

Java is an excellent successor to C++ and its use in Android made the platform better.

>made the platform better.

Sure, except for me, the guy who bought the HTC G2. I have one of the best android phones you can get and when I used a coworker's iPhone yesterday I frowned at how poor the interface and responsiveness of my phone are in comparison.

I think this'll be my last Android phone (this is my second), I'm going iPhone whenever they do another release.

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