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A comment on Ask HN: Would any one pay for a python to objc transpiler, with iOS integration?.

Re:Ask HN: Would any one pay for a python to objc transpiler... by davelnewton on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:35AM (#13150985)
Of course people that are interested in it would pay, although I suspect a "subscription model" at $20/mo would be off-putting.

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Would any one pay for a python to objc transpiler... by noidax on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:37AM (#13150992)
I agree, I need these answers to work on it for full time. So basically I created this interest check thread.
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Re:Ask HN: Would any one pay for a python to objc transpiler... by davelnewton on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:49AM (#13151049)
Well, I don't know the answer, obviously, but I wouldn't quit my day job.

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.

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