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pjmlp on Dec 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Microsoft Uses C++ to Deliver Office Applicati...

There are native Java compilers for iOS.

Java the language specification != JVM bytecode.

67726e on Dec 1, 2014 [–]

Did I not make that clear? I specified you can write Java the language but you're not running Java the bytecode...

pjmlp on Dec 1, 2014 | [–]

Except compilers like Codename One and RoboVM take bytecode as input and generate native code.

There isn't any transpilation to Objective-C involved.

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