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The big draw for me is working on the iPad. If you attach the keyboard it becomes a pretty awesome 'do anything' device, now that you can code on it as well. Ca
by sudhirj 6y ago
The big draw for me is working on the iPad. If you attach the keyboard it becomes a pretty awesome 'do anything' device, now that you can code on it as well. Can't build native apps yet, but seems like a future opportunity. Web apps / PWA development works great, I can just have the app running in a hovering window / on a quarter of the screen.
- shafyy 6y agoOr on the Oculus Quest :-)
- greggman3 6y agoIt's such a contrast to see this and the post by setzer22 right next to each other
- georgebarnett 6y agoI'm in the process of switching a lot of my work onto iPad. I don't see a conflict here - I'm still using a "compiler" api, its just somewhere else (i.e. not on my local device), its just in somebodies cloud. I can't see why that would go away in the future and I don't really care where the compiler actually is (if I did, I could self host).
- sudhirj 6y agoYes and no. So I still have a giant desktop, it’s unlikely that I’ll give that up any time soon. The advantage of being able to code from a portable device is additive, not subtractive. The setzer22 post is a contemplation of future subtraction, but today my opportunities to code have increased, not reduced.
- swiley 6y agoYou’ll never be able to build native apps on your iPad, and if you could a web app like this wouldn’t be necessary.
- month13 6y agoQuite exciting, I've been keen to realise my iPad for this sort of thing, and have experimented with code-server. Does make me lament the fact that I can't tap into the perfectly viable OS beneath the hood, but oh well.