As far as the rules, quoting Federico Viticci[1]: "For a long time, Apple's App Store review guidelines prohibited apps from downloading executable code from t

As far as the rules, quoting Federico Viticci[1]: "For a long time, Apple's App Store review guidelines prohibited apps from downloading executable code from the Internet. The company's original stance resulted in IDEs that couldn't sync scripts and programs across multiple devices – a serious limitation for the emergent movement of programmers embracing the iPad Pro as a portable workstation. Fortunately, Apple started relaxing their rules earlier this year, allowing "apps designed to teach, develop, or test executable code" to download and run code." As an example of what's possible, in Pythonista 3[2] on my iPad Pro I installed StaSH[3] (bash-like shell implementation), youtube-dl using pip, and then wrote a simple script[4] to let me save YouTube videos with a long-press on a link -> Share -> Run Pythonista 3 Script... 1: https://www.macstories.net/linked/pythonista-3-2-syncs-scripts-with-icloud-supports-open-in-place-via-ios-11s-files-app/ https://www.macstories.net/linked/pythonista-3-2-syncs-scrip... 2: https://omz-software.com/pythonista/ https://omz-software.com/pythonista/ 3: https://github.com/ywangd/stash https://github.com/ywangd/stash 4: https://gist.github.com/solarfl4re/0a3647788f8ec2f375f2da3db55fb0fe https://gist.github.com/solarfl4re/0a3647788f8ec2f375f2da3db...