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If you can, you should consider supporting mobile browsers. This tool could be a powerful way for those with only mobile computing power to improve their situat

• iota7 5y ago
  typing text on mobile devices are usually not a good experience
• alexmojaki 5y ago
  The only modern browser that I know really doesn't work is Safari, which unfortunately doesn't play well with Pyodide, see e.g. https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/441 https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/441 It should work to an extent on a mobile device, but I can't imagine how to make it a good user experience while actually coding. A tablet should be okayish, it's just not optimised for that. Typing code on a phone sounds awful. For anyone who really wants that I recommend https://grasshopper.app/ https://grasshopper.app/ to learn on the go while dragging and dropping, but this comes with serious limitations. Ultimately I don't know what the long term plan is for someone without a desktop device. Do people write full programs on mobile devices? Is it easy enough to install external dependencies? To build and package software for release?
  • codetrotter 5y ago
    > Typing code on a phone sounds awful. For sure. But I’ve heard of people who literally don’t have money for a computer and who so started coding on their phone.
  • Leparamour 5y ago
    Check out this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27903630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27903630 It's impressive what some people can achieve under restraints. Following the recommendation I started to use Pydroid (on Adroid) from the Playstore and even without an external keyboard it's great for little scripts (or exercises) on the go.
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