Re: Ok, Apple has released its grip

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 11/09/2010 15.27, Chris Babcock wrote:
> The whole thread has been more heat than light almost from the beginning.
> I'm sure someone is disappointed that they won't be able to use the
> revolutionary JS interpreter they wrote in Lua, but I'd be more interested
> knowing about specific apps and development tools.

assumin I correctly understood your question) as development tools you 
can either user Apple's Xcode (a decent IDE with some quirks) and tools, 
or just use gcc. I've no experience about the latter on iPhone 
development, but I suppose the hard part will be code signing, testing 
and deployment.

Objective-C is a C superset, so compiling Lua should pose no problems.
If you prefer pre-cooked development, there are many application 
generators around, some of then using Lua.

In any case, you'll need Mac hardware (some people hacked OS X to run it 
on PCs but, apart from the obvious legal point, I certainly wouldn't use 
something like that for professional development).
In any case, an Apple-oriented list or website would probably be more 
appropriate and informative about the iWhatever development tools, 
unless somebody here wrote a Lua library or interface for those devices.

--
  Enrico