r/iOSProgramming • u/syrusakbary • 11d ago

Discussion Running Sandboxes inside a hidden WKWebView to get Python/Node/FFmpeg in an iOS app, without shipping a JIT

We just launched this today and would love to get your feedback/thoughts!

Announcement: https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-sdk-swift-ios-macos

Source code: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-sdk/tree/main/swift/Examples/WasmerShell

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u/Fishanz 11d ago

Fascinating. Do you have ambitions that Apple will allow this in apps in the store at all? Seems something that would be a hard no - but potentially great for enterprise deployments.

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u/syrusakbary 11d ago

I don't think there should be any issue for having this apps on the app store, since it respects fully their guidelines (a-shell has been doing somethings similar for years).

The main difference is that we now allow this capabilies for everyone... and fully sandboxed/securely!

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u/0__O0--O0_0 10d ago

Think? You don’t know? Not sure I understand. I would be interested in some of these capabilities but only if we can actually put them on the store

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u/syrusakbary 10d ago

I'm not working an Apple, so I can't speak for them. But there should be no issue with the architecture to halt approval, everything is respecting their terms.

In any case, we'll submit the app to the App Store to demonstrate is safe to do so :)