Hi! I talked to some people at JuliaCon and it seems that we will never get a native Julia REPL in an iPad due to Apple’s restrictions regarding JIT :frowning: That’s too bad, because we have this impressive hardware that can do a lot of things to… play angry birds if you are not a content creator…

[image] WalterMadelim: Why do you want to run julia on an iPad. When the iPad Pro 2024 with M4 was released it had the first publicly available aarch64 CPU with the SME extension , now also available in MacBooks and Mac Studios. People went crazy doing matmul benchmarks on the iPad, see for e…

Technically, you can get around the no-JIT restriction by bundling a browser (which has to be Safari) with your app. But it wouldn’t help target native code from Julia. Metal.jl is the easiest way to target GPUs in Apple Silicon Macs. As the others said, the same hardware exists in some iPads. If y…

Maybe it’s a dumb question, but would juliac work if cross-compilation becomes a thing?

The tablets (iPads and others) are becoming more and more powerful tools. I guess they will finally replace most laptops in a few years. Having them as work platforms will be important. I would bet Apple will (have to) flexibilize that restriction. And Julia support for these hardware will become in…

Why do you need cross-compilation? It’s the same platform as any other Apple Silicon MacBook or Mac Mini/Studio.

I have zero idea how compatible iOS and MacOS are. If juliac on a Macbook works, then that’s one less reason to wait for cross-compilation.

[image] WalterMadelim: Why do you want to run julia on an iPad… they are merely toys for children Because it would be a good idea to start growing future Julia developers. I’d agree this isn’t where you want to do intensive scientific computational work, but offering the opportunity to learn …

I agree with @MDSW . Anecdotally, I had the opportunity to work with twelve high school astronomy interns yesterday on an intro to coding activity. When I asked how many had used, or even heard of, Python before, I was surprised to see that very few raised their hands. Same went for Julia (less surpr…

I’m not sure it would be worthwhile for anything more than a curiosity, but has anyone had any luck with iSH? I know there is not a supported version of Julia for 32 bit Linux with musl instead of glibc, so all I’ve done is try to use gcompat. No luck, but I’m far from an expert

I apologize for resurrecting this old thread, but if anyone has an iPad and is interested in trying a bit of a curiosity, I’d appreciate any feedback on an attempt to put a Julia 1.10 REPL on iOS (apologies for the silly name, naming is hard, and my original plan of naming it “Yulia” ended up being …

Julia in iPad

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Julia on iOS and Android

Internals & Design

android

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November 21, 2023

Julia on ipad pro

General Usage

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16766

January 31, 2020

SubsetJuliaVM: A Julia Subset Execution Environment for iOS and Web

Tooling

developer-tools , rust

29

2153

July 20, 2026

Can Julia be installed and used on an iPhone?

General Usage

question

9

1944

February 17, 2025

Executing Julia on iOS?

General Usage

2

1625

April 4, 2021

Julia in iPad

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