There is Codea ( http://codea.io/ http://codea.io/ ) already which lets you make simple games and learn programming and I dont see tons of people using it. It's

There is Codea ( http://codea.io/ http://codea.io/ ) already which lets you make simple games and learn programming and I dont see tons of people using it. It's also less scary than Xcode. I tried to "switch" to an iPad and the lack of a filesystem is its Achilles heel. You need to think of files if you are a developer or if you want to become one. iPad is anti-files so if you grow up using one you get brain damaged. And no emacs so...useless.