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I'm not sure what an "etoy" is, but I imagine it's essentially a program and associated source code (e.g. so that you can learn from it). iOS bans, for no reason, compilers or interpretors. Android allows for these. The majority of children will not be publishing native apps.

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Check this out...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codea/id439571171 https://github.com/TwoLivesLeft/Codea-Runtime

You can't export or import your code there, you can only type it in. (Unless something's changed lately.) Even micros in the 70s could save/load cassette tape.

(Codea is pretty neat anyway. I get sad to see the potential locked up.)

If we're talking about getting a kids to learn how to use these wonderful tools, that's a feature, not a bug. I for one know that I learned to program precisely because I couldn't just swap cassettes with the other kids. I had a crappy computer that no one else had, so the only games I had were the ones I typed in myself. That act of typing (and hence reading) the source code was how I learned to program.

This is neither a feature nor a bug. It's a restriction forced by Apple.

Is an evolution of the Smalltalk environment tailored for children.

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