[1] http://bytebuddy.net/
@david: thanks for sharing, that does look nice, and as was said, even parts of it could maybe help us to do a better usage of android assets formats, so thanks again for sharing :)
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 07:18:01PM +0200, Dima Tisnek wrote:
How about python-java bridge, like Rubicon or pyjnius? You get best of both worlds -- a good language and a mature runtime. On 17 May 2016 18:05, "David Boddie" <[email protected]> wrote: In a belated attempt to jump on the Android bandwagon I started to look into learning Java and the Android APIs. I realised very quickly that I couldn't face writing a lot of code in that language. Looking around for other languages running on the Dalvik VM, I found a few that might be nicer than Java, but I wasn't so sure that I wanted to write in any of those, either. In the end, I decided to try an experiment to see how much I could learn about Dalvik and Java by creating tools to handle some of the file formats used in Android packaging, and by trying to implement a compiler for a subset of Python. The result can be found in this repository: https://bitbucket.org/dboddie/duck It should be noted that the source language isn't really Python. The parser from the standard library is used to parse it, but the semantics of the generated code are different to those of Python. That's why I gave the language a different name. How is this relevant to a mailing list about Python on mobile platforms? Firstly, the language may be close enough to Python for people to find it more familiar than Java, even if there are places where the differences may trip them up. Writing code to fit into a framework designed for a statically typed language requires a slightly different mindset to the one you might have when writing regular Python code, so it may not seem so strange to developers once they've accepted that. Secondly, it makes it possible to write a more faithful implementation of Python using code that looks a lot like Python, instead of Java. You could use it to write support code for a compiler, or perhaps write an interpreter in it. It's all very experimental at the moment. I've been uncomfortable about publishing it before now because I keep finding things I've overlooked, though it's been a good learning experience. Maybe there will be things in there that people find useful. David _______________________________________________ Mobile-sig mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-sig
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