Re: Goodbye Lua on iPhone?

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 00:41, Henk Boom <henk@henk.ca> wrote:
>> Goodbye Lua on iPhone?

> I thought this was already the case. From an excerpt of the agreement
> on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_OS#Java

> "No interpreted code may be downloaded or used in an Application
> except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Documented APIs
> and built-in interpreter(s)."

> I've read that the "or" in "downloaded or used" was originally an
> "and," but that Apple changed it at some point.

No, it was not. In practice this rule prohibits allowing user to
execute code which was not approved by Apple.

Quite a few apps did use Lua.

There are even a couple of frameworks:

http://github.com/probablycorey/wax
http://anscamobile.com/corona/

Alexander.