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Interesting you posted this as I have an older 2016 iPad Pro that I have loved using for Notability notes over the past few years. I just bought a second hand

Interesting you posted this as I have an older 2016 iPad Pro that I have loved using for Notability notes over the past few years. I just bought a second hand Apple keyboard for it to make more use of it. I don’t expect to be able to fully program with it but with the likes of Blink I can have a fully functional terminal on a remote dev server and do what I need there. I find that the form factor of the iPad allows me to “think differently” as strange as that sounds. I can move from my laptop/desk and sit down somewhere else and do certain tasks more easily on the iPad, particularly when it comes to thinking/sketching solutions or writing.

poletopole 6y ago
Your comment makes me want to write this symbolic generative grammar lang I've been thinking called "Roam" where you hand write code in pseudo natural langs compiled from lower level dialects with a root lang bootstrapped using Rust, so you could either enter natural accented commands or render code to a target natural lang. Mathematically it's possible, but I'm not sure programmers or end users would appreciate it unless their was a global kak like text entry system for keyboard input. Personally, I find writing by hand helps me "think differently" (I've coded on paper napkins) and the end result is usually much better because writing pseudo-code is much easier than having the distraction of writing correct syntax--a fact I always forget about but my professors in college always required.