> However, I also think Apple is doing the right thing by banning "meta-platforms" from the App store. But didn't Apple also ban writing apps in, say, Haskell

> However, I also think Apple is doing the right thing by banning "meta-platforms" from the App store. But didn't Apple also ban writing apps in, say, Haskell and all other non-C-family languages that compile to machine code? Writing in a language like that is no more a "meta-platform" than Objective-C itself is.