@groovestomp There's Ruby apps for iOS, as well as BASIC, Scheme (but old & limited version), JS, some others, but Pythonista is the gold standard of coding on your iPhone. Nice dev env/REPL and system libraries.

@mdhughes it was a different time back in ~'12. :-)

@groovestomp 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20121001003215/omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios/new.html

Before that, back to 2008-ish, I had TinyScheme compiled into my personal "Ki" app; couldn't distribute it, but it worked for writing a little code, hit Save, Run, get errors or results.

@mdhughes ah, neato. I know Apple used to have a no dynamic compilation policy. My buddy was also big into Ruby, so perhaps there was no similar Ruby option?

@groovestomp It's not a policy so much as technical limitations on the early devices which had 128K RAM free, if that. TinyScheme is a static compile, and uses as little RAM as you want to set. There were multiple BASIC interpreters early on, then for a long time they died out, and now several are back.

I presume Ruby only compiles as dynamic libraries, and in any case couldn't have run on anything until maybe 2012, because it's a bloated piggy.

@mdhughes indeed. I prefer not to use Ruby these days.

@groovestomp "Oh Ruby! Don't take my phone to town!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1e9p6J89rQ

@groovestomp (This cover version was very popular in Norway, back in the 1980-ies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n_fKMi8FVo

@steinarb Jeg liker det!

Not such a big fan of the popular cover you linked. :-P