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True. I think it's also important to recognize the points against including many languages on a phone, though. A lot of the power of mobile applications derives from their integration with a standardized event system integrated in to the phone. Maintaining such a beast at low latencies and in a well-tested state across multiple languages is not exactly desirable overhead. Then there's the space concern, relative difficulties providing cross-language-platform sandboxing/security, etc...




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