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Google has modified Java for Android. They could have instead modified Python. There have been academic papers that have shown that Python can be made to be statically typed (ignoring one or two keywords, like eval).

Assuming that Google had done these, there should be no reason that Python would not be fast or robust enough.

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Yeah Guido was basically asked this at a PyCon in the past. He was working for Google and at some point he probably had brought up the question. Someone in the audience asked about it and his comment was that it was "political". In other words technically possible but powers that be decided against it for other reasons. It is also important how he said it, he was very calm before and after, but when answering that question he was visibly upset. You could tell it was a sore topic for him that made him pretty angry.

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