Quoth wren ng thornton
But yes, the mere process of making bindings isn't especially cumbersome. Anyone interested in prior art should take a look at the Perl--ObjectiveC bridgework, CamelBones:
Note (again) that there's already some work in this area, http://code.google.com/p/hoc/ My recollection from trying it several years ago was that there must indeed have been something especially cumbersome about it, given the prodigiously long time it would take to build an application, but it could be better now. In any case, I don't think it would be a crime to try a fresh start. With good Haskell-like high-level bindings, or not. If I were to work on it (as I was somewhat inspired to think about after reading Jason Dagit's comments), it would be the thinnest possible layer, with names unchanged and semantics preserved as possible. High level bindings can be applied on top of that, as required. Donn