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I was hoping with the announcement of the iPad Pro with the M1 chip and 16GB(!) of RAM it meant that Apple was going to give us some way of running arbitrary co
by easton 5y ago
I was hoping with the announcement of the iPad Pro with the M1 chip and 16GB(!) of RAM it meant that Apple was going to give us some way of running arbitrary code inside sandboxes on the device in the next release of iPadOS. (So we could have Xcode, or at the least, Swift and Clang and a terminal). I suppose they probably would’ve told Panic though, even if under NDA since they’ve had a good relationship with Apple. Crap.
- Pulcinella 5y agoWWDC is in a month so we’ll see then. I will be disappointed if there isn’t at least XCode for the iPad. Swift Playgrounds already compiles Swift code on the iPad and has for years.
- lstamour 5y agoJust because it’s impossible for third-parties to write an IDE doesn’t mean Apple can’t. In fact, it seems more likely that Apple would ship Xcode for iOS as a way of trying out new API capabilities and then in a year or two allowing other devs to use some of the same capabilities. That said, I could imagine that if such an API existed, Visual Studio Code would be the first text editor devs would be excited for. I like Nova, it’s much faster than VS Code, but VS Code has all the extensions, and is cross-platform. I tend to use Nova for files, VS Code for folders and JetBrains IDEs for projects…