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> A credible leak has been that Xcode is coming to iPad (and iOS?). Not sure how I feel about it, I'd prefer more time be spend on improving it for Mac use (whe
by outworlder 7y ago
> A credible leak has been that Xcode is coming to iPad (and iOS?). Not sure how I feel about it, I'd prefer more time be spend on improving it for Mac use (where, in my opinion, 99% of developers will do their work anyway).
This would be a good step into making the iPad an actual productivity device.
- cactus2093 7y agoIf they also added a linux VM on the iPad, that would be the real game changer for being able to do programming on it IMO.
- sonthonax 7y agoWhy?
- philwelch 7y agoBecause Linux is in most ways an ideal development environment for backend code that is going to run on a Linux server in production.
- sonthonax 7y agoBut iPad OS is already a UNIX operating system. Sure, it's not identical to Linux, but it's good enough to do web development on.
- philwelch 7y agoiPad OS doesn't, as far as I can tell so far, actually have a command-line environment on it. But the one on macOS is impoverished compared to Linux and it has enough quirky differences that the process of really digging in and automating your workflow on it is mostly identical to the process of learning the specific quirks of one vendor's operating system. I know. I've tried. And I reached the point where I said to myself, "macOS system administration is never going to be a useful transferrable skill for me, so I would rather work in Linux".
- walterbell 7y agoAnyone heard of a Hypervisor API being added to iOS?
- saagarjha 7y agoNot sure of an API, but rumors point to a new ARM chip with EL2, although it’s probably destined for Macs.