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Haskell and VMs are not against the App Store rules at all, you just cannot JIT anything. The ban against non-C languages was only in place long enough to scare

• wvenable 13y ago
  That's not true. An app cannot run code not part of the original app package. This was a huge problem for projects like the Commodore 64 emulator.
  • jstevens85 13y ago
    Those rules were relaxed three years ago. http://n4g.com/news/607824/apple-approves-manomios-c64-2-0-app-complete-with-basic http://n4g.com/news/607824/apple-approves-manomios-c64-2-0-a...
  • nickmain 13y ago
    There are many examples of programming language runtime apps, such as Scheme: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gambit-repl/id434534076 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gambit-repl/id434534076 OCaml: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ocamlexample/id396515573 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ocamlexample/id396515573 Python: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/python-3.3-for-ios/id577911279 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/python-3.3-for-ios/id5779112... Codea (LUA): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codea/id439571171 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codea/id439571171 What restricts these apps from being awesome is that they cannot download source code or accept source code pushed to them from other apps. Cut-n-paste is the only way to transfer existing code.
    • nknighthb 13y ago
      > they cannot download source code The Python app can download arbitrary data with nothing more than a simple urllib call. Feed it into eval, and you're done.