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if they want everyone to use ipads they should make an ide for it.
by jlebrech 10y ago
if they want everyone to use ipads they should make an ide for it.
- sbuk 10y agoI guess the Swift app they released last year was a kind of precursor to that becoming a realised app.
- simonh 10y agoWhy wait for Apple? There are dozens of development environments and coding tools already available, several of which can be used to build App Store Apps right on your phone or iPad, although you'll need to export them to XCode to build the app package. Check out Codea, Pythonista and the Kodiak Javascript and PHP apps for starters. But yes, official support for development on the device would be very welcome and given the examples above is completely doable.
- jlebrech 10y agoi'm just hoping for a revolutionary new way to develop.
- mark_l_watson 10y agoThere are: Raskell Haskell IDE, Pythonista Python IDE, and the Swift playgrounds IDE. I own Raskell and Pythonista and they are quite good.
- RBerenguel 10y agoLisping by the creator of Raskell is also pretty good
- CoolGuySteve 10y agoLisping is great but it stopped receiving updates a long time ago. I kind of wish it would be open sourced so someone could add more features to that amazing editor it has.
- coldtea 10y agoBecause the only thing stopping people from using them is the lack of an IDE? Or because programmers would take well to having to program on the iPad? Or because programmers are not a rounding error when talking about "everyone"?
- Terretta 10y agoWorking Copy + Textastic, Koder, Coda, Prompt ... once you get into some of these in the iOS App Store you can poke around and find other things people use. You can also use web IDEs like Code Envy / Eclipse Che.