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J2ObjC vs LambdaNative: What are the differences?
J2ObjC: Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime used by Google Inbox to share 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and Web. J2ObjC is an open-source command-line tool from Google that translates Java code to Objective-C for the iOS (iPhone/iPad) platform. This tool enables Java code to be part of an iOS application's build, as no editing of the generated files is necessary. The goal is to write an app's non-UI code (such as data access, or application logic) in Java, which is then shared by web apps (using GWT), Android apps, and iOS apps; LambdaNative: Cross-platform mobile apps in Scheme. LambdaNative is an open-source (BSD licensed) cross-platform development environment written in Scheme (Gambit-C), supporting Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10, OS X, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenWrt.
J2ObjC and LambdaNative belong to "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" category of the tech stack.
J2ObjC and LambdaNative are both open source tools. It seems that J2ObjC with 5.47K GitHub stars and 771 forks on GitHub has more adoption than LambdaNative with 1.15K GitHub stars and 85 GitHub forks.
Pros of J2ObjC
- Backed by Google4
- Made it possible to quickly port a hardware driver1
- Access to existing Java libraries1