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You know what I want? I want a handheld that is so easy to program that you can do real app development, right on the handheld itself. Not just toy app develo
by jbellis 17y ago
You know what I want?
I want a handheld that is so easy to program that you can do real app development, right on the handheld itself. Not just toy app development, the real deal. It might not be as awesome as Eclipse or Xcode but if it's doable without an external host, kids will start playing with it.
The Newton could do this, 15 years ago.
From my limited knowledge only WebOS is close to being simple enough that you could reasonably develop for it without a "real" computer and all its baggage. Which is too bad, because it's a long ways from taking the world by storm.
- raimondious 17y agoI want that too — I don't think I'd have my job today without all those days in the back of math class programming my TI-83.
- lsc 17y agothe nokia n900 is essentially a full-scale Linux box; hell, it's a lot more powerful than the computer I had when I started learning Linux myself. the only handycap is the small monitor and keyboard; but it does have TV-out and bluetooth, so you can fix those parts yourself, if you like.
- jbellis 17y agoThe nokia N900 is open, but hardly easy to develop for.
- lsc 17y agoit's not any harder than any other linux platform; you just need to account for the small screensize (800x480 if I remember correctly) The big win is that you can port existing linux apps targeted at other mobile platforms (or even desktop platforms, if you can make them work at 800x480) You also have a full linux stack for debugging on-device.
- evanrmurphy 17y agoI think it'd be interesting to develop this way by dictation. Speech recognition should be relatively easy for programming languages where the rules are so simple, and typing isn't fun on a phone.