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No, it isn't. It would make the likes of Xamarin and RubyMotion impossible. You're confused with the fact that App Store policies do not allow downloading and running new executable code.

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I thought Xamarin and RM compiled to objc.

Yeah, I am pretty sure that Xamarin compiles down to Obj-C on the iPhone, but on Android it includes a VM in java that runs .net (mono).

Close. According to http://xamarin.com/how-it-works , they do Ahead-Of-Time compilation to go straight to ARM binaries for iOS.

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