Interesting. Good luck with the project and keep us posted. I'm surprised you didn't post about it to /r/cn1 which admittedly isn't a huge sub. But its nice to see new projects.

I'm also considering writing a new AoT VM. More for the backend than mobile. I have some ideas that I need to explore in that direction but I'm pretty busy with other tasks at the moment.

There are some nuances in the Java object model such as constructor order, object initialization, etc. that are very fine and might collide with C++. That's my main concern here. Also virtual inheritance is a pain. Anyway, I hope that works for you.

Curious though why you didn't port the GC?

I get that it's hard to debug but it's kind of an important part of the puzzle. It isn't very complicated either.

Interesting. We specifically chose C and not C++ for ParparVM because of the inherent incompatibility between the object models. I see you're running into some of those problems right now.

Why aren't you using our UWP work based on iKVM?