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I think it is a very fair question. The first reason I want Mozilla to win here is that they don't want my data. They are pushing for stronger privacy in firefox, and although I love Chrome I don't think Google can ever support real browser privacy.

I am a fan of JS on windows 8 and winphone 8. However, I own a win7 phone and got burned by their non-backwards compatible upgrade to 8. So I have no love for MS, although I am a big fan of the tiled UI.

I think that FFOS will provide a better place where I can put together an app in Linux with vim. I don't want to install eclipse to write for Android, buy a macbook to write an iOSx app or install visual studio.

I hope that FFOS can be an easy to fiddle playground for me. We'll see.

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You should be able to make a Firefox OS app with Gedit or any text editor, or any set of browser tools (Firefox desktop browsers have a good set, and even a FFos emulator). I'm quite excited for Firefox OS myself, if I could find a decent turn-by-turn navigation web-app I'd ditch Android...

>I don't want to install eclipse to write for Android

Well you don't need eclipse to write for Android

That is true, but what is the command line tooling like for java? I build java all day inside god-awful IDEs. The last time I tried compiling Java on the command line it was really a lot of work.

I suppose there is some maven support for building Android. An even better reason to hope for the best for FFOS.

Android also has decent command line tool support and a build system based on Ant. I'm not a huge fan of ant, but the default setup works all right and is extensible. I've mostly managed to stay inside Emacs for Android development.

That is a good thing to know. Maybe I should give it another look.

there is an official gradle support (still a work in progress): http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-gui... .

In all sincerity please dont refer to Java and Android in the same sentence.

As far as Google is concerned, Java does not run on Android and you might be bearing witness to something that Google disclaims.

They also just switched over to IntelliJ, didn't they?

Yes indeed. http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

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