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TSUTiger 14 hours ago

there are terminal type apps in the app store though?

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circuit10 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Not sure why this is downvoted, it's true:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ish-shell/id1436902243

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-shell/id1473805438

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nozzlegear 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Those are terminal emulators, not actual terminals. You can't fork or exec on iOS/iPadOS, so they're not actually running e.g. a python process, they're just running python interpreter.

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Asmod4n 13 hours ago | parent [-]

ish runs a full blown x86 alpine linux distro.

	▲	jasomill 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As I understand it, ish implements x86 instructions and Linux syscalls as functions and translates running programs into arrays of calls to these functions, so all the machine code that will ever run is included in the app bundle, which at least satisfies the rules iOS enforces at runtime. As for the rules as written, I suppose you could make reasonable arguments either way.