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Re:Linux apps running on iOS via userspace x86 emulation and... by thangngoc89 on Monday November 12, 2018 @06:07AM (#18431856)
While you're right that JIT isn't allowed on App Store, the issue with browser is you can only use built-in Safari webview for rendering websites. So all browsers on the App Store is a shell for Safari webview
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Re:Linux apps running on iOS via userspace x86 emulation and... by saagarjha on Monday November 12, 2018 @06:23AM (#18431930)
My argument stands even if the "you must use WebKit" guideline is dropped. There's no point in writing a browser without WebKit because you just can't get good performance out of it.
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Re:Linux apps running on iOS via userspace x86 emulation and... by jmarinez on Monday November 12, 2018 @11:28AM (#18433528)
This isn't true either. https://github.com/jcs/endless
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Re:Linux apps running on iOS via userspace x86 emulation and... by raydev on Monday November 12, 2018 @12:30PM (#18434008)
The Github page says it's a wrapper around UIWebView, so it's still a form of WebKit provided by iOS.
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