[theWheez]

Any idea how this might affect (or help) projects like iSH, or similar?

I've been fighting to be productive on my iPad, and currently that takes the form of a remote terminal.

I've been craving the ability to run a proper Unix shell locally.

[lykr0n]

I highly doubt that you're going to get a proper shell on the iPad.

[derefr]

I'm assuming you mean a shell into the iPad's own Unix environment. You could build something for iOS that works like Crouton does on ChromeOS just fine. (Just, nobody has done it yet, for some reason. The iPad Pro is plenty powerful enough to run VMs!)

[BlackRing]

Both Pythonista and OpenTerm on iOS are "good enough" for a lot of what I need, but it would be nice to have a proper shell. Even if it's jailed/locked to /private/var/mobile

[larkost]

No effect at all. Apple is unlikely to make this possible, and given the sandboxing of Apps on iOS a meaningful version of this for local resources outside of the App are prohibited.

[dlivingston]

Agreed. There are some basic terminals available on iOS/iPadOS though, with ssh and other capabilities, but I can't speak to how productive one could really be with them. I wholly expect to see a version of Xcode released on the iPad within the few years, though.

[saagarjha]

iSH is not affected, since it currently only touches files inside of its sandbox.