On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:31 AM, geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> wrote:
Unfortunately, according to people who know Jython much better than I, the amount of work involved would be analogous to the effort involved to write Jython in the first place. Since I doubt strongly that I have either the technical or political skills to develop and maintain my own Python implementation, I prefer the escape hatch. Your mileage apparently does vary.
Sure... it is true that making Jython run on Dalvik/Android is a big task, but saying that it requires the same amount of work as reimplementing Jython from scratch is a huge overstatement. It is true that it would not be as easy as it was for Charles to get JRuby to run on Dalvik/Android. JRuby has always had an interpreter and then JITs to Java bytecode while Jython compiles all code to Java bytecode immediately when loaded. There are efforts underway to make future versions of Jython run on Android, but just like the core CPython developers most of us are doing Jython as a side project, so it takes time. Very early experiments are looking promising though, but there is still a long way to go. If someone sent me an Android dev. phone I might get more motivated to focus my efforts in that direction... ;) Cheers, Tobias