Yes. The original Elite was reverse-engineered into C by Christian Pinder as part of the Elite: The New Kind project. The source is out there. It's a brilliant bit of work.
It seems plausible that AIs could port this code to other architecures. It seems like a good large scale task that most systems probably can't manage right now, but perhaps soon.
Oolite does look like Mac, done in COCO? Even Mac/Coco looks dated. Not the screens, they actual look is great.
A Rust version would be cool.
When it's part of a request, it generally means "I don't know tech XYZ but I'm pretty sure I could enjoy it and contribute if it was using a tech I know". Which is generally a form of procrastination.
I dislike Javascript and I don't know Objective-C, and it didn't prevent me to tinker with Oolite, which uses both, because I like the game (now, tbh assembly is "hardcore" so OP's request is legitimate).
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