Hacker News Reader

Don't be mislead... this is just running on Android, which has long been possible. You still can't write/distribute a purely Go application in say, the play store.

Android runs on more than just arm -- anything supported by the platform needs to support MIPS and x86 as well.

It does have support, but I've seen exactly one MIPS droid (a budget tablet called a 'Cruz' that had great battery life and terrible performance) and zero x86 androids (other than ones I put together for myself from android-x86.org).

So, I wouldn't say it needs to support these platforms. Just that not supporting them would be a glaring omission.

IMHO, it doesn't mean you can write for Android in go as much as you do in java.