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None at all? So you'd be paying for the privilege of writing code for your own computer? Wow.

Monetarily you only need to pay if you intend to distribute via the App Store.

Non-App Store distribution just requires a free Apple Developer account.

I think most people would agree that it's not the money that's the issue, it's that you need to somehow register with apple to compile and develop and app (presuming that's what this means).

Also what does this imply about non-apple toolsets? If I decide I want to try out gcc 6 on my mac, could I then not run programs compiled with it?

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