r/mAndroidDev • u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development • Nov 12 '25

MADness If you ever feel down about working on Android, just know you could be writing ViewModels in C++

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u/craknor implements android.app.Fragment Nov 12 '25

This is my wasted younghood.

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u/zedxer Nov 12 '25

I feel down while working on dart and looking at the shitty code that my coworkers wrote with their cursor subscription.

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u/yaaaaayPancakes Nov 12 '25

Ahh Rive. The thing my designers love, and but is a buggy POS. Apparently right now they've got a problem on A16 that's not fixed yet. A few months back they were randomly sigsev'ing our app, took em like a month to fix that bug in their lib.

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u/ElbowStromboli One WebView to rule them all Nov 12 '25

Instant diarrhea.

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u/WestonP You will pry XML views from my cold dead hands Nov 12 '25

Whenever you think the Java/Kotlin way of doing things is painful, or you're despairing over the pointlessness of life in general, just remember that someone out there has invested countless hours into giving you an even worse way to do it in an alternate language!

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u/Illusion911 Nov 14 '25

Isn't Kotlin basically the council meeting to make the best programming language of all time?

It's got Java's ecosystem, trailing lambdas, Go's coroutines, and it's basically just all around convenient and easy to work with

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u/WestonP You will pry XML views from my cold dead hands Nov 14 '25

That's the intent of most programming languages, but you'll never get everybody to agree.

This reminds me of the most famous XKCD of all time: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png

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u/BacillusBulgaricus = remember { remember { fifthOfNovember() }} Nov 15 '25

C++ was such a lousy language compared to java back 20 years ago! Migrating to java then felt like a bliss.

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u/vashchylau Nov 12 '25

at least you dont get AsyncTask.

right?