what is objc2objj fr?

tlrobinson/objc2objj — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-07-17 · repo last pushed 2010-02-01

★ 5JavaScriptAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5DormantSetup · hard

vibe map

mindmap
  root((repo))
    What it does
      Planned Objective-C to Objective-J compiler
      Not yet implemented
      Concept placeholder
    Tech stack
      JavaScript
      Objective-C
      Objective-J
    Use cases
      Reuse iOS logic on web
      Bridge Apple and browser code
      Inspire future tooling
    Audience
      Developers
      Researchers
    Status
      Early stage
      Not maintained
      Experimental

mindmap root((repo)) What it does Planned Objective-C to Objective-J compiler Not yet implemented Concept placeholder Tech stack JavaScript Objective-C Objective-J Use cases Reuse iOS logic on web Bridge Apple and browser code Inspire future tooling Audience Developers Researchers Status Early stage Not maintained Experimental

what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Explore how Objective-C syntax could map to Objective-J for the browser

VIBE 2

Study an early concept for cross-platform Apple-to-web code sharing

VIBE 3

Use as inspiration for building a real Objective-C-to-web compiler

what's the stack?

JavaScriptObjective-CObjective-J

how it stacks up fr

	tlrobinson/objc2objj	00kaku/wp-rest-playground	chalarangelo/mini-active-record
Stars	5	5	5
Language	JavaScript	JavaScript	JavaScript
Last pushed	2010-02-01	—	—
Maintenance	Dormant	—	—
Setup difficulty	hard	hard	easy
Complexity	2/5	3/5	1/5
Audience	developer	developer	vibe coder

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

how do i run it?

Difficulty · hard time til it works · 1day+

The compiler is not yet implemented, so there is no working tool to run.

prompts (copy fr)

prompt 1

Explain how an Objective-C to Objective-J compiler like this one would need to parse Objective-C syntax.

prompt 2

Help me sketch out a basic implementation plan for translating Objective-C classes into Objective-J.

prompt 3

What would it take to finish the not-yet-implemented compiler described in this repo's README?

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