Comments on: RIP Lua Programming on iPhone

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:06:45 +0000

@superarts.org, don’t kid yourself. ObjC is an awful piece of shit that just happens to be entrenched in the Apple ecosystem. No one would choose that junk if they had a choice today. Not even Apple themselves. It’s a dusguting language.

By: Buster

Buster — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:21:18 +0000

Apple sucks balls.

By: superarts.org

superarts.org — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:46:03 +0000

I just don’t understand it. Firstly objc is not ugly at all. Secondly it is addressed in TOC that you cannot use any script in your app, and you agreed it. So what is the big deal? If objc is that hard for you, go for Android.

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Lua on iPhone | Miscellaneous musings in beta — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:38:45 +0000

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By: Apple stifles PL innovation « Handwaving

Apple stifles PL innovation « Handwaving — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:14:15 +0000

[...] which Apple wants to protect by eliminating any other platform from running on top. Some developers are pissed, while others don’t care. This is exactly the problem Microsoft faced when Java first [...]

By: Tuomas Pelkonen

Tuomas Pelkonen — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:50:03 +0000

@millenomi I was aware of the Agreement before, but I never heard of an Application that was rejected, because it uses Lua, and there are a lot of applications in the App Store that use Lua.

By: millenomi

millenomi — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:43:00 +0000

Not to be a spoilsport, but the Agreement always had a ban on interpreted languages; it was poorly worded, but the Agreement that came out just before this one had already fixed that loophole. So it’s a little late to cry re: spoilt milk now. It was not kosher long before last week.

By: Apple doesn't care about your app. Probably. | Hacker Boss

Apple doesn't care about your app. Probably. | Hacker Boss — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:33:41 +0000

[...] it strikes me as completely idiotic. Banning programmers’ favorite tools is stuff which makes talented developers call it quits and stop working on the iPhone platform. How can that possibly be in Apple’s business [...]

By: Wade Mealing

Wade Mealing — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:36:53 +0000

I’d like to be able to do a lot more with ASE, at the moment it is somewhat limited, you can’t really write full programs in the ASE, although I hope that it would be possible to expose more of the java API, I just dont know how to take advantage of it.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:53:57 +0000

They can. See decades of antivirus experience, where they do a very similar thing: finding patterns in binary code. Even if your tool produces Objective-C code in the end, it’s still possible to discover distinctive patterns.