As a python developer, what language is the easiest and closest when it comes to building mobile apps?
As a python developer, what language is the easiest and closest when it comes to building mobile apps?
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Hmm... A bit personal, but Python's old school at this point, and so Javascript might feel like the closest.
Modern-er languages for mobile devs have more language support for building apps in my personal opinion.
Python has never been a big language for app development… no idea why you would call it old school.
To answer op, Swift for iOS; Kotlin on Android.
I didn't say it's an old-school app development language...
Thanks. Yeah, I wasn't looking for python based frameworks, but rather other languages that are at least somewhat similar and easier to learn/transition to.
I know I should just look this up, but I'll ask anyway.
Back in 2013, in grad school, I remember we used Objective C for iOS and Java for Android. Can I still build compatible apk's and iOS packages using these older language choices respectively for modern mobile OS's or am I a dinosaur and need to get with the times (swift and kotlin)?
For iOS you can still use Objective C, but there are additions to platform frameworks and whole new frameworks that are Swift first. I don’t really know how hard it would be to use those APIs from Objective C. Swift is certainly the default going forward.
I don’t work on Android but my understanding is that Java hasn’t and isn’t going anywhere on Android. Kotlin is supposed to be great but I haven’t heard mention of Java being dropped.
Not dropped, but google has suggested all new android projects be done with Kotlin instead
You can still use either.
Python is the number 1 programming language and has been for years. All of these sources use different methods to calculate their rankings and come to the same conclusion:
I didn't say it's not the no. 1 programming language.