What is the state of non-Objective-C programming for iPhone?

Question

After spending three weeks learning Objective-C and Cocoa programming for my work, I\'ve been tasked with researching alternatives to it for iPhone development.

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Answer 1

I've also looked for alternatives to Objective-C because writing it for me is simply not productive. I'm currently looking into XMLVM (http://xmlvm.org/overview/) as a way to write Java which then becomes Objective-C source code. There are many nice things about this solution but the biggest in my opinion is that it produces Objective-C source code so you are not prevented from attaching your core application to APIs which have not yet been mapped using XMLVM. My intention is to write the core of my applications in Java which is then portable to IPhone and Android, then add platform specific functionality on top of that in either Objective-C or Android-Java.