Ask HN: Would any one pay for a python to objc transpiler, with iOS integration? I am thinking of bringing the power of python's syntax to objc iOS development. Would people who are interested pay for it with a subscription models of $20 / month. |
Ask HN: Would any one pay for a python to objc transpiler, with iOS integration? I am thinking of bringing the power of python's syntax to objc iOS development. Would people who are interested pay for it with a subscription models of $20 / month. |
Doesn't the actual question revolve around:
(a) how many people are interested
(b) of those, how many would pay a quarter grand a year for the privilege
(c) how many people would think that the added level of complexity would outweigh the benefits of just using Swift?
As someone who needs to write an iOS app, I'm going to use Swift, and the tooling built around it. Transpilation would mean you either need to integrate a debugger (hard) or I'll have to debug transpiled code (and have to check the transpilation)--I have enough "fun" doing that with ES6 in the browser. No thanks; I'll stick with the supported tools.
If that's your goal, it could be less work to embed a python interpreter in ObjC and write nice bindings for the iOs APIs.
Btw, there was YC company which sold PHP server optimizations. Anyone knows the name? (I think they are closed now but I am not sure)
if obj.isNumber():
print "Hello World"
We understand what you're talking about; I don't think you need to explain the concept.