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Try to write a pure POSIX applications on either iOS or Android.

https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/fall2016/atlidakis

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That's not the same thing though, is it? Even desktop Linux is not technically POSIX compliant.

But Android and iOS are complete nightmares in this regard.

I believe that. Imagine the power of having a Unix box in your pocket whereever you go.

It's a pity the Ubuntu phone went nowhere. There is Ubuntu Touch though (haven't used it).

A box programmed in Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, ISO C, ISO C++, plus OS specific APIs, with hardly anything that shows up on UNIX architecture books.

It is because without it there is no UNIX.

So I rephrase, try to write a iOS or Android app using UNIX only APIs.

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