[felipemnoa]

Since we are sharing: I've spent the last couple of years, on and off, building a physics engine from scratch. Pretty hard considering I'm not a mechanical engineer. Lots of fun though.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Excellent! You should do a "Show HN," when you are done.

What language are you using? What is your destination platform?

UPDATE: I just looked at your HN handle. Questions answered. Good show!

[felipemnoa]

>>What language are you using?

Java

>>What is your destination platform?

Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I have not run Java on iPhone (that I know of). Do you know if it will pass the App Store review?

[felipemnoa]

I'm first transcoding the Java code into Objective-C code with a Java to Objective-C transcoder that I wrote for fun. Google has their own Java To Objective-C transcoder, though I've never used it.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Cool. I wrote a Pascal-to-C++ transcriber in the late 1980s. It was mostly done with RegEx, on a command line.

What a nightmare.

You have cool hobbies.

[felipemnoa]

Awesome! Thanks.

[saagarjha]

I think Apple removed their restrictions on programming languages long ago. If you can get it to run on the platform, you can use it, AFAIK.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

No. Apple doesn't natively support Java on iOS, but there is an app called Pico[0], that supposedly acts like a Java IDE.

It doesn't seem to be a particularly popular program, but it's the only one I've seen that does it.

I don't know if this[1] ever bore fruit.

The transcoder Java->ObjC isn't a bad idea. The languages have a lot of similarities.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/in/app/pico-compiler-java-compiler-jd...

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3407781/a-plan-to-bring-ja...

[saagarjha]

Enough that Apple offered Cocoa bindings in it for a while!