[1] I was operating under the assumption that the source, not a binary, was provided to Apple. I stand corrected.
[1] I was operating under the assumption that the source, not a binary, was provided to Apple. I stand corrected.
"de Icaza identifies almost 40 applications (most of which are games) in Apple's App Store that are built on Unity and Mono...Mono's robust portability and advanced support for features like static compilation are enabling developers to use it in innovative ways that wouldn't be possible with Microsoft's .NET implementation"
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/01/open-source-...
Optimizing C compilers and platform independence properly. There have been a lot of research involved in making C compilers very fast, so you get to copy that for free.
Also, Gambit Scheme is a generic system designed to target C so that it can compile to all kinds of architectures. It's a mature, robust system that comes with a lot of stuff.