I am fairly certain this is against Apple's policies. In principle you're not supposed to change the functionality of your app without review.

i don't see any difference between wasm and js? If react native apps can be updated with js, wasm should be allowed.

I think updating js without review is also against policy.

It's a grey area.

App Review Guidelines §2.5.2 says: "Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps"

Technically Apple can punish you for anything but so far it seems to be accepted for small fixes and tweaks.

Doesn't seem like a grey area at all, pretty clear it is against the policy. Just a ridiculous policy and hard to enforce.

It’s not a grey area for features.

It’s a grey area for other parts of the code that are not mentioned in the text.

It’s not a grey area for features.

It’s grey for other parts of the code that are not mentioned in the text.

Could you reinvent OTA updates in another non-native language? Of course. But then you still wouldn't have a native app. You'd just be doing React Native but worse.

My point is that it isn't that RN "removes one of the biggest annoyances of developing for the App Store", it's that a specific technical feature of RN does that, and it's not only available to RN

Yes, it could, but then you would have re-invented React Native. But in WASM.

Yeah, but to my understanding that’s not what Shopify is doing.