Re:Linux apps running on iOS via userspace x86 emulation and...
by simonh on Monday November 12, 2018 @07:16AM
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Pythonista has been on the App Store for 6 years. The first programming environment on the iPad I ever used was Codea which is based on Lua which was released in 2011, but there are many more. Genuine programming environments directly hosted on iOS have been around for a long time.
The main restriction in the past was on apps that downloaded code to run. For Pythonista and Codea and such this meant you had to either type in or cut-and-past in your code. However Pythonista has had the ability for you to write or paste in a dropbox sync script or FTP server script, etc, for may years, they just couldn't include it as standard. Since then this has been eased up so Pythonista now has a built-in feature to sync scripts to iCloud.
The main restriction in the past was on apps that downloaded code to run. For Pythonista and Codea and such this meant you had to either type in or cut-and-past in your code. However Pythonista has had the ability for you to write or paste in a dropbox sync script or FTP server script, etc, for may years, they just couldn't include it as standard. Since then this has been eased up so Pythonista now has a built-in feature to sync scripts to iCloud.