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I came to a similar realization yesterday. Many people no longer have computers at home. Instead they simply have their phone as their sole computing device.
by josho 7y ago
I came to a similar realization yesterday. Many people no longer have computers at home. Instead they simply have their phone as their sole computing device.
- saagarjha 7y agoThat being said, I think that most of the people on GitHub probably have computers at home.
- Quarrelsome 7y agoWell here's my question. Do you know anyone that codes on mobile? I don't but the youngest devs I know are late twenties.
- saagarjha 7y agoYes, but they're not very young.
- Quarrelsome 7y agoYou DO know people that dev on mobile??? Is it their primary platform or just an acceptable downgrade during in transit or "out of office". What sort of programs do they use? Do they remote into tastier machines to run beefier programs or are there a range of IDEs for mobile? I am most intrigued.
- saagarjha 7y agoAs far as I can tell, their preferred device is an iPhone 7 that they use to SSH into other machines that they run vim on, which they have told me that they do not think of as a "downgrade" from their main machine, a 12" MacBook (which presumably does the same thing). They're kind of strange, to be honest.
- ben-schaaf 7y agoI've never quite understood the whole "developing on my phone/tablet" thing. It's like calling my keyboard/mouse a "development machine". I'll be impressed when I see someone actually switching to their phones for development: compiling, testing and running all on the device itself.
- Quarrelsome 7y agoI'm sure we'll start to get some. Surely some members of the phone generation are more devastatingly dexterous on a phone than a keyboard. Perhaps the typical university path makes it less common? I'd imagine the autodidact path might be more likely for a new breed should the new breed even exist.
- Quarrelsome 7y agoThat's very interesting. Thanks for the data <3.