Well, I hope it's being done securely. I don't know much about the particulars of Android's iOS, but having a low-level language with access to the whole OS (which is what a real user would want for mobile programming, really) could be dangerous for native security.
On the other hand, if Google or Apple backed a high-level scripting language like Python, that could also lead to security concerns, but I would feel safer with that than something like C on my mobile device.
In what scenario do you trust random C code more than random Python code?
Unintentional security mistakes are much, much easier to make in C than most other languages.
EDIT: Sorry if this came off as a little harsh, but I guess I'm curious as to what you think the security advantages of C over python are, when everything I've heard says the opposite.
Reread my comment...I said I felt safer with Python over C.
I'm well aware that, e.g. a buffer overflow is something you'd want to worry about in writing C code. I guess I worded my comment strangely? I said I would "rather have that" than C, to which I was referring to a high level language like Python.
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Well, I hope it's being done securely. I don't know much about the particulars of Android's iOS, but having a low-level language with access to the whole OS (which is what a real user would want for mobile programming, really) could be dangerous for native security.
On the other hand, if Google or Apple backed a high-level scripting language like Python, that could also lead to security concerns, but I would feel safer with that than something like C on my mobile device.
In what scenario do you trust random C code more than random Python code?
Unintentional security mistakes are much, much easier to make in C than most other languages.
EDIT: Sorry if this came off as a little harsh, but I guess I'm curious as to what you think the security advantages of C over python are, when everything I've heard says the opposite.
Reread my comment...I said I felt safer with Python over C.
I'm well aware that, e.g. a buffer overflow is something you'd want to worry about in writing C code. I guess I worded my comment strangely? I said I would "rather have that" than C, to which I was referring to a high level language like Python.
My apologies, somehow my eyes skipped over "that than" in the last sentence.
S'alright :)
Android already has C. The only difference is that the public C API is relatively minimal, so to do anything useful you need to go through Java.