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What languages can be used to develop for the iPhone? I know, I know: canonically speaking, Objective-C is the one and only language can be used to develop for the iPhone. But I'm appealing to the creative hackers out there.
Is there anything - no matter how hacky - other than Objective-C which can be used to develop for the iPhone? (other than using assembly or C to re-invent Objective-C)
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There Are Two Main Languages That Power iOS: Objective-C and Swift. You can use other languages to code iOS apps, but they may require significant workarounds that require more effort than needed.
The top programming languages at Apple (by job volume) are topped by Python by a significant margin, followed by C++, Java, Objective-C, Swift, Perl (!), and JavaScript.
You can use Mono (C# and JavaScript) with the Unity 3D game development kit. It uses ahead of time compilation to get around the iPhone's non-support of dynamically generated code.
The iPhone doesn't need to be jail broken but the license isn't free.
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