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		commoner on Aug 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account By disallowing dynamic code execution, Apple does disallow other browsing engines. It does not matter what language Apple uses to disallow other browsing engines, since the effect is the same.

threeseed on Aug 28, 2020 [–]

It prevents JIT compilation for Javascript code.

You can create browser engines without this feature.

commoner on Aug 29, 2020 | [–]

The App Store Review Guidelines explicitly forbid this:

> 2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

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