
The State of JavaScript on Android Is Poor - megaman821
https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-state-of-javascript-on-android-in-2015-is-poor/33889
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voltagex_
> It just means over time you'll lose Android users as they get fed up with
> the huge speed disparity (if they care, or notice) but you'll retain and
> grow iOS users.

> If Apple's overall market share keeps increasing, this wouldn't necessarily
> be a bad strategy. Not my favorite, and not really in harmony with the
> original vision for Discourse, but I'm limited in what we can do with the
> resources that we have. We can't build two distinct applications (web, for
> iOS, and native, for Android) without destroying the company in the process.

>It could also be that over a long time scale (e.g. five years out) Android
will fix this. But it clearly will not be fixed in a year or two.

Sigh. I wonder if Android M has been benched.

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voltagex_
See also
[https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2935](https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2935)

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macrael
The State of JavaScript on Android Is Poor ... we need to start considering
alternatives for the Discourse project.

Really buried the lede there.

