Comment by cnity
2 years ago
> A little bit of this also has to do to stick it to all those Luddites on the internet who post "that's impossible" or "you're doing it wrong" to Stack Overflow questions... Requesting permissions in the JNI "oh you have to do that in Java" or other dumb stuff like that. I am completely uninterested in your opinions of what is or is not possible. This is computer science. There aren't restrictions. I can do anything I want. It's just bits. You don't own me.
From the wonderful CNLohr's rawdraw justification[0]. I always enjoy these kinds of efforts because they embody the true hacker spirit. This is Hacker News after all!
0: https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid?tab=readme-ov-file#...
I like this guys spirit. Once I had to pick up old code from a guy with this spirit and it was f-ing horrible.
I love this project (from 2014?) and perhaps my favorite part other than the f-u of the whole thing is the commit message "complete refactoring".
Beats using Java
Think of it as exercise: it sucks up front but you won't end up an obese diabetic on the WALL-E ship later.
Java is only a nightmare when you have to follow corporate decade-old "best" practices
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