I heard from a level 5 engineer at Google today “The use of reactive programming is ill-advised in Android development because of known issues that it generates in the area of lifecycle complications/potential leaks. Also, Kotlin is supported as a first class language largely as a shorthand for those who prefer it when writing third-party applications” This is his argument on why we should move our application to framework and use java/native code only. @jw is this the reason why we wont be seeing Kotlin support in AOSP anytime in the future?

What are 3P applications?

third-party applications

was that person expressing their own opinion or Google’s?

Does this person only write backend code?😂 That has to be the funniest thing I've heard in a while 😂

What lifecycle issues are that supposed to be which don't appear without reactive programming (and are not simply unnoticed/ignored like usual)?

What’s a level 5 senior architect?

Looks like it means he’s a senior software engineer (L5) https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-different-levels-of-software-engineers-at-Google

Wow, I am shock.