[oauea]

Yes. Apple forces you to buy their overpriced hardware if you want to develop for their platform.

[jmisavage]

Xcode comes with an iOS simulator so you don't need hardware, but it would be a bad idea not to test on an actual device.

[oauea]

How do I run xcode on Linux or Windows?

[megous]

In qemu.

[oauea]

Is this legally possible without software piracy? Can you link me to instructions? Does apple have documentation anywhere?

[megous]

IANAL.

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

I don't know if Apple has documentation somewhere.

[Hamuko]

Xcode only runs on Apple hardware. (a)

a. Well, if Apple got their way when it came to Hackintoshes.

[jmisavage]

You got me there.