Re: Goodbye Lua on iPhone?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Vaughan McAlley <ockegheim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's Corona's view on this subject:
>
> http://blog.anscamobile.com/2010/04/do-apples-new-rules-affect-you/
>
> In their opinion, a Corona project just look like a C app to Apple.

Mathew Burke has canceled his much-awaited LuaNova article, because of
his doubts that Apple will agree with Corona on this one, and offered
to do a Android Java article instead ;)

But BTW, how does Apple detect whether an app complies with the
restrictions? Presumably it's low-level dissembly scanning.

If an application in Lua (say) was compiled into Objective-C in such a
way that there was no trace of the 'framework', would it not pass?
(This is not such a bad compile path because of Obj-C's late binding
functionality)  Particularly if you think of the framework as a
sophisticated template engine rather than as linked libraries.  Then
development could take place in an emulator, or a jailbroken phone,
and finally the release version is indistinguishable from any other
Obj-C application.  Which I believe is Corona's argument.

An interesting game...

steve d.