programming scala apps on iphone? [closed]

Question

is there something new about programming apps for iphone with scala?

Do you have some experiences with programming scala apps for iphone?

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

It will be very difficult to make this happen. There's no JVM on the iPhone and it's probably too big to package it with your app.

There's work being done on an LLVM backend for Scala. Since there are code generators for the iPhone for LLVM, this is a path forward, but the backend is still a proof of concept, we still need a way to invoke Cocoa code from Java (not sure if something like that exists) and the Java standard library would need to be ported over as well.

But this would definitely be an excellent thing if it ever happens. Coding in Objective-C is definitely nowhere near as nice as coding in Scala.