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Hello-World iOS App in Assembly

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168 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 02:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source
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sanskarix ◴[30 Oct 25 05:49 UTC] No.45756787[source]▶
This kind of thing is how you actually learn what's under the hood. Everyone's building with React Native and Flutter, which is fine until something breaks. Then you're stuck Googling black magic. Starting from assembly teaches you the real cost of abstraction.
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internetter ◴[30 Oct 25 06:45 UTC] No.45757063[source]▶
Is this really low level though? Because its hooking UIKit which is very high level relative to ASM. I'd be really curious to see an app draw on iOS without UIKit. I don't know if thats possible.
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1. saagarjha ◴[30 Oct 25 08:27 UTC] No.45757623[source]▶
No, you’ll have to check in with backboard etc before it will let you do anything useful