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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:19PM (#23750961)
I've been spending the last couple of years doubling down on learning Swift, and the Swift ecosystem. It's been 14 hours a day, seven days a week.

And I haven't been paid a dime.

All the while, I have been told that I'm "wasting my time," "you should be learning React Native and Javascript," and that "Apple is a dead company." etc. ad nauseam

Since I've been hearing that same refrain (substitute "Windows" for "React Native," and "C" for "JavaScript") for the last 34 years, it doesn't phase me that much.

The simple fact of the matter is, I can afford to take the time to do it, I really like Swift, and I really like developing for Apple systems.

Maybe it will result in some kind of lucrative stuff; maybe not. I don't care.

I spent over 30 years, writing software that other people used as toilet paper. I'm doing what I want.

This guy is doing what he wants. Good on him.

One of the nice things about art, is that it is something other people enjoy; maybe, even more than we (the artists) do.

I think it's great.

I also enjoyed this[0], a couple of years ago.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1757088830996244

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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by felipemnoa on Monday July 06, 2020 @03:38PM (#23751862)
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.
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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:01PM (#23752091)
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!

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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by felipemnoa on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:05PM (#23752131)
>>What language are you using?

Java

>>What is your destination platform?

Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android

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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:08PM (#23752158)
I have not run Java on iPhone (that I know of). Do you know if it will pass the App Store review?
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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by felipemnoa on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:12PM (#23752205)
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.
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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:21PM (#23752299)
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.

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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by felipemnoa on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:23PM (#23752928)
Awesome! Thanks.
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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by saagarjha on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:24PM (#23752932)
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.
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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:52PM (#23754474)
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...

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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by saagarjha on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:44PM (#23755186)
Enough that Apple offered Cocoa bindings in it for a while!
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Re:1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:31AM (#23757634)
At one time, I think that Steve Jobs wanted Java to be a native language for Apple development, but it ended up getting sidelined by Objective-C.

Developers had a difficult time, adjusting to ObjC. It’s very different from C, whereas Java was familiar to almost everyone.

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