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- xchat (maybe that does work on the iPad, it could be) X-Chat? Nope. However, I can personally vouch that IRC works on the iPad. And will work even better onc

by Zev 16y ago

- xchat (maybe that does work on the iPad, it could be) X-Chat? Nope. However, I can personally vouch that IRC works on the iPad. And will work even better once we get Colloquy for the iPad released :) - an ide (currently intellij, I hate it but that's what I'm using) There's no JRE on the iPad. No bundling your own interpreter either. However, I can see someone making a very good web development IDE for the iPad. Hell, I'd probably pay a lot of $ for one..

derefr 16y ago
> There's no JRE on the iPad. No bundling your own interpreter either. I wonder if anyone has plans for an IDE written solely to run on jailbroken iPads.
- ptomato 16y ago
  I doubt it. Insufficient demand for the amount of work it would require.
- arohner 16y ago
  Emacs or vi. Can't be too much work after porting the terminal over (which is already done, right?)
  - derefr 16y ago
    vi comes with (at least Cydia's install of) Terminal.app. The point of an iPad IDE, though, would be to take advantage of the iPad's touch-based workflow; if you're just going to type, you may as well use a PC. I want to finger-paint my programs into existence.
  - jaaron 16y ago
    Or you can use existing SSH or VPN apps in the AppStore right now to connect to any server running your dev environment.
    - msg 16y ago
      It seems to me the main problem is then the keyboard. As far as I can tell, there's no way I can run Emacs with the iPad soft keyboard (brother in law bought one, so I got to try first hand). But I just have a clunky laptop if I attach an external keyboard. This is also the problem with the ssh client on my G1. I can do minor tasks in the shell but I can't use my editor.
jaaron 16y ago
There are some basic code editors [1] with built in FTP or similar protocols. Basically they're intended to let you edit scripts and web pages on servers. A more interesting scenario is when Mozilla's Bespin works properly on the iPad. It doesn't yet, but the developers have mentioned interest in getting it working. [1] http://smokingapples.com/ipad/markup-gusto/ http://smokingapples.com/ipad/markup-gusto/

by Zev 16y ago

derefr 16y ago

> There's no JRE on the iPad. No bundling your own interpreter either. I wonder if anyone has plans for an IDE written solely to run on jailbroken iPads.

ptomato 16y ago
I doubt it. Insufficient demand for the amount of work it would require.
arohner 16y ago
Emacs or vi. Can't be too much work after porting the terminal over (which is already done, right?)
- derefr 16y ago
  vi comes with (at least Cydia's install of) Terminal.app. The point of an iPad IDE, though, would be to take advantage of the iPad's touch-based workflow; if you're just going to type, you may as well use a PC. I want to finger-paint my programs into existence.
- jaaron 16y ago
  Or you can use existing SSH or VPN apps in the AppStore right now to connect to any server running your dev environment.
  - msg 16y ago
    It seems to me the main problem is then the keyboard. As far as I can tell, there's no way I can run Emacs with the iPad soft keyboard (brother in law bought one, so I got to try first hand). But I just have a clunky laptop if I attach an external keyboard. This is also the problem with the ssh client on my G1. I can do minor tasks in the shell but I can't use my editor.

jaaron 16y ago

There are some basic code editors [1] with built in FTP or similar protocols. Basically they're intended to let you edit scripts and web pages on servers. A more interesting scenario is when Mozilla's Bespin works properly on the iPad. It doesn't yet, but the developers have mentioned interest in getting it working. [1] http://smokingapples.com/ipad/markup-gusto/ http://smokingapples.com/ipad/markup-gusto/