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If 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.
by cactus2093 6y ago
If 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 6y agoWhy?
- philwelch 6y 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 6y 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 6y 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 6y agoAnyone heard of a Hypervisor API being added to iOS?
- saagarjha 6y agoNot sure of an API, but rumors point to a new ARM chip with EL2, although it’s probably destined for Macs.