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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: 0s | source
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[30 Oct 25 09:59 UTC] No.45758172[source]▶
Very cool, if impractical (it’s likely that you’d never get an ASM app through the App Store Approval process).

ARM Assembly is a much more Byzantine creature, than the old 8- and 16-bit versions I used, way back in the Pleistocene.

I’m always a fan of starting from the “bare metal,” to learn, but these days, it’s a long trip. When I was just a wee sprog, it was only a couple of steps away.

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Ecco ◴[30 Oct 25 12:43 UTC] No.45759401[source]▶
How would that impact the App Store approval? AFAIK they review binaries anyway…
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[30 Oct 25 12:52 UTC] No.45759490[source]▶
They do, but ASM doesn't have the guardrails that the compiled languages have, so it's almost certain that private APIs would get accessed.
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1. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[30 Oct 25 15:53 UTC] No.45761426{3}[source]▶
Tell you guys what.

We’ll just leave things as they are.

I’ll forfeit the game.

The field is yours.

Have a great day!