[kaio]

As interesting it may ever sound, i still can't think about good use-cases for those kinds of translation tools. I have been fiddling around a bit with XMLVM (which gives really has a nice generic approach) but the point that you basically can't use any libraries leads quickly to a dead-end. Also i'm not convinced that any automatic translation of plain business-logic could compensate the sacrifice of Obj-C features.

[sitharus]

In the early days of iOS I worked on a JavaME to C++ source translation tool. No idea if it was a commercial success or not, but it did have customers.

The main desire is for games - ones that just have a canvas or GL - so porting is easier. Also some companies want shared business logic.

It turned out to be a small market though, since iOS and Android took out the market it was easier to write twice than handle the fuss of porting.

[lenzai]

How much time did it take you to reach the point when you could translate an average project with xmlvm ? e.g 10-30kloc