Build Android Apps in PicoLisp Without an Android SDK
tl;dr on how it works:<p>&gt; The PilBox App itself (called the &quot;PilBox kernel&quot;) is written in Java, the normal Android way. It displays a WebView GUI, and starts a PicoLisp binary compiled for Arm64 CPUs. This binary may now run any PicoLisp program, by setting up a local web server where the WebView component connects to, possibly opening a database, and doing whatever is desired.<p>I think this is a really cool project and I&#x27;m all for new (to me) lisp dialects doing their thing, but reading the main page, the tag line and copy don&#x27;t seem to match, for my definition of &quot;simple&quot;:<p>&gt; [picolisp is] Programming simplified!<p>&gt; PicoLisp is a programming language, or really a programming system, including a built-in database engine and a GUI system!<p>These two statements seem to be at odds.<p>That aside, I do like the idea because I&#x27;m a huge fan of the HTML&#x2F;JS&#x2F;CSS display paradigm for it&#x27;s easy cross-platform support.<p>I also like reducing the &quot;mobile app&quot; to really just interacting with a single local &quot;edge&quot; (which is what people are calling client-side programs these days I think) server. Just me personally but I would love it if all frontend development was reduced to HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS -- I have no desire to learn QT&#x2F;GDK+&#x2F;wxWidgets&#x2F;whatever else (just like I don&#x27;t like learning Java for Android, Swift&#x2F;ObjC for iOS, Java for Blackberry, etc), and firmly believe that eventually performance will be comparable (or close enough to not matter) and  support for native features will be passable.