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This is great, I mean, think about all the issues you run into with workstations -- gone. The iPad is so sandboxed that, barring poor memory management, this th

This is great, I mean, think about all the issues you run into with workstations -- gone. The iPad is so sandboxed that, barring poor memory management, this thing should always run like a champ. It'll be interesting to see if someone writes a full fledged editor, git/svn client, and development stack for the App Store. 10 hours of mobile coding would be sick.

stcredzero 17y ago
A bit of framework to turn Javascript into a Hypercard-like environment would be cool. It would also be very amenable to the Freemium model. The for-charge services would include increased server-side storage and more flexible app/stack sharing options.
- jasongullickson 17y ago
  You should see my YCRFC submission...
  - stcredzero 17y ago
    Where do we see your YCRFC submission? Just a simple search, and I turned this up: http://www.ngbasic.com/ Hosting this would be relatively simple. Don't know if it's any good.
    - jasongullickson 17y ago
      That's neat, I'll have to take a closer look. Once I hear back from YC as to the status of my submission I'll share.
sorbits 17y ago
The inability to call out to shell commands makes for a very poor development environment, pretty much everything has to be built into the app. For web development this might work ok, although you mention git, and there is no (fully working) library for that.
- abyssknight 17y ago
  I'm thinking something like Coda for the iPad. I know there's a lot of flexibility lost, and for us hackers that seems too high a price to pay, but what about all the basic web editing, PHP, and Rails operations? Slap a virtual terminal or SSH client in there for kicks and we're golden. On a sidenote, having worked from a Linux dumb terminal for a year and a half, I understand the limitations this sort of thing can put on you. That said, my productivity was so high using those things because there were less distractions. There was no need to configure, reskin, play with the desktop -- it would just be reset. Got a lot more done in those days.
there 17y ago
the current iSSH ipad app is supposed to be getting a split-screen mode that will let you run a web browser next to an ssh terminal. i think its main purpose is to support browsing through an ssh tunnel, but it could still be used for some decent remote web development with screen/tmux and vi.

stcredzero 17y ago

A bit of framework to turn Javascript into a Hypercard-like environment would be cool. It would also be very amenable to the Freemium model. The for-charge services would include increased server-side storage and more flexible app/stack sharing options.

jasongullickson 17y ago
You should see my YCRFC submission...
- stcredzero 17y ago
  Where do we see your YCRFC submission? Just a simple search, and I turned this up: http://www.ngbasic.com/ Hosting this would be relatively simple. Don't know if it's any good.
  - jasongullickson 17y ago
    That's neat, I'll have to take a closer look. Once I hear back from YC as to the status of my submission I'll share.

sorbits 17y ago

The inability to call out to shell commands makes for a very poor development environment, pretty much everything has to be built into the app. For web development this might work ok, although you mention git, and there is no (fully working) library for that.

abyssknight 17y ago
I'm thinking something like Coda for the iPad. I know there's a lot of flexibility lost, and for us hackers that seems too high a price to pay, but what about all the basic web editing, PHP, and Rails operations? Slap a virtual terminal or SSH client in there for kicks and we're golden. On a sidenote, having worked from a Linux dumb terminal for a year and a half, I understand the limitations this sort of thing can put on you. That said, my productivity was so high using those things because there were less distractions. There was no need to configure, reskin, play with the desktop -- it would just be reset. Got a lot more done in those days.

there 17y ago

the current iSSH ipad app is supposed to be getting a split-screen mode that will let you run a web browser next to an ssh terminal. i think its main purpose is to support browsing through an ssh tunnel, but it could still be used for some decent remote web development with screen/tmux and vi.