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		Operyl on May 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account o... Doesn't Apple explicitly get irritated when you do this kind of thing?

ezfe on May 2, 2018 [–]

Apple prohibits certain things but interpreters are not one of those. See Pythonista and OpenTerm as examples:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pythonista-3/id1085978097?mt...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/openterm/id1323205755?mt=8

Operyl on May 2, 2018 | [–]

Yeah, but as far as I know, loading code into said interpreters in a way that bypasses their code review process is a grey area.

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