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		david-given on July 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ivy: iOS app written in Go I did actually think that Apple required the use of Apple's developer tools for iThing apps --- so unless you can compile your target language into C, C++, ObjC (or Swift, I suppose) and then use XCode to compile the final binary, your app would be rejected. Has this changed?

fit2rule on July 13, 2015 [–]

This project compiles the Go code to a C library that can be linked quite easily with ObjC.

david-given on July 13, 2015 | [–]

Yeah, but it's still producing native code via a non-Apple toolchain. I'd want to check the T&Cs carefully, in case Apple notice and pull the app further down the line.

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