<p>Now I have a stack of free time on my hands, I wanna get into iphone dev fo real.</p>

<p>But Objective C scares me (a bit). It feels I'm going a bit back in time. I say this because I've spent the last 8 months coding in C++.</p>

<p><a href="http://inexdo.com/JSCocoa" rel="nofollow noreferrer">JSCocoa</a> looks awesome, but does this actually work on the iphone?</p>

<p>What would need to be done to get this working on the iphone?</p>

(Hi, I'm the JSCocoa dev) 
JSCocoa works on the iPhone simulator. Check out the latest version from Google svn and compile iPhoneTest2.
To work on the iPhone, it needs libffi. I've seen
http://code.google.com/p/iphone-dev/source/browse/trunk/llvm-gcc-4.0-iphone/
and some libffi posts regarding Python for iPhone, but have not tested any further.
Also I don't own an iPhone, so testing will mostly be up to someone who owns one :)