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Honestly sounds like you might want an iPad. I recently got one to use as a secondary display just for Slack /Discord/etc, but after connecting a trackpad & ke

Honestly sounds like you might want an iPad. I recently got one to use as a secondary display just for Slack /Discord/etc, but after connecting a trackpad & keyboard I totally fell in love. It's a very simplistic environment, but it's actually quite nice as an alternative to the full-blown macOS.

Waterluvian 5y ago
Hmm. Not a crazy idea. simplification is appealing to me. But I’m guessing it’s still not really a computer? Can I get iterm2 with bash and vscode and rust?
- Jtsummers 5y ago
  > Can I get iterm2 with bash and vscode and rust? Not really. The best dev experience I have with the iPad is using Blink to mosh into (the mobility mosh offers over SSH is key for me) a server, which lets me run whatever I want on it. But if you're developing GUI applications, it's not really that great. You can use something like Working Copy for git and Textastic for editing programs on the iPad, but it's not really a proper IDE (even a light IDE) just a syntax aware editor. If I'm not using emacs on the server, I use those for my code editing purposes.
  - edvinbesic 5y ago
    Have you found a consistent way to get color schemes working for vim/tmux when running over mosh? Haven’t tried mosh in a while but this was my biggest gripe, over what is otherwise an amazing mobile experience.
  - cassianoleal 5y ago
    You can run VS Code in the browser: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev One of their listed use-cases is exactly this: > Develop on your iPad. You can upload/download files (and even store them in the cloud using the Files app), as well as open repositories remotely with the built-in GitHub Repositories extension.
    - out_of_protocol 5y ago
      > For example, the terminal and debugger are not available, which makes sense since you can't compile, run, and debug a Rust or Go application within the browser sandbox Direct quote
      - cassianoleal 5y ago
        Ugh, that's pretty limiting. I wasn't aware of that. Perhaps one of the self-hosted VS Code solutions out there would work?
Uehreka 5y ago
People say this, and then when you say “sure but one of my full screen apps is VS Code and another one is the Terminal, how do I get that on an iPad?” they go “Honestly sounds like you might want a Mac.”
- makeitdouble 5y ago
  I really hate how Apple shaped a whole new ecosystem that made it specially hard to run open source and unixy stuff. It feels like the Disney moment where a company thriving from an abundant shared resource turns around to poison the well to keep their lead. I love my iPad but really wish that’s not the future waiting for us.
- treeman79 5y ago
  Vs code with terminal in codespaces via a browser is most impressive. I still prefer local, but I was blown awat
- tumblewit 5y ago
  There is now a web version of vscode and you can ssh into your environment.
- nlitened 5y ago
  You can also connect iPad to your Mac as a second display, and put terminal there :)
- ascagnel_ 5y ago
  You can get some stuff running on an iPad using iSH [0], but compatibility is iffy and performance even moreso. At one point, I tried bringing a RPi4 along with me to act as a mobile dev server (it'd serve an instance of VSCode over ethernet via a USB-C/ethernet adapter on the iPad, and the iPad would share its Wifi connection to the RPi), but it was clunky to bring two devices with me. Nowadays, I use Blink Shell [1] as a mosh terminal to a remote dev server. [0]: https://ish.app https://ish.app [1]: https://blink.sh https://blink.sh
wjdp 5y ago
Honestly sounds like you might want a tiling window manager Most of the time a workspace only has a single app in it and when I want a terminal side-by-side it's just one button press away.

Waterluvian 5y ago

Hmm. Not a crazy idea. simplification is appealing to me. But I’m guessing it’s still not really a computer? Can I get iterm2 with bash and vscode and rust?

Jtsummers 5y ago
> Can I get iterm2 with bash and vscode and rust? Not really. The best dev experience I have with the iPad is using Blink to mosh into (the mobility mosh offers over SSH is key for me) a server, which lets me run whatever I want on it. But if you're developing GUI applications, it's not really that great. You can use something like Working Copy for git and Textastic for editing programs on the iPad, but it's not really a proper IDE (even a light IDE) just a syntax aware editor. If I'm not using emacs on the server, I use those for my code editing purposes.
- edvinbesic 5y ago
  Have you found a consistent way to get color schemes working for vim/tmux when running over mosh? Haven’t tried mosh in a while but this was my biggest gripe, over what is otherwise an amazing mobile experience.
- cassianoleal 5y ago
  You can run VS Code in the browser: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev One of their listed use-cases is exactly this: > Develop on your iPad. You can upload/download files (and even store them in the cloud using the Files app), as well as open repositories remotely with the built-in GitHub Repositories extension.
  - out_of_protocol 5y ago
    > For example, the terminal and debugger are not available, which makes sense since you can't compile, run, and debug a Rust or Go application within the browser sandbox Direct quote
    - cassianoleal 5y ago
      Ugh, that's pretty limiting. I wasn't aware of that. Perhaps one of the self-hosted VS Code solutions out there would work?

Uehreka 5y ago

People say this, and then when you say “sure but one of my full screen apps is VS Code and another one is the Terminal, how do I get that on an iPad?” they go “Honestly sounds like you might want a Mac.”

makeitdouble 5y ago
I really hate how Apple shaped a whole new ecosystem that made it specially hard to run open source and unixy stuff. It feels like the Disney moment where a company thriving from an abundant shared resource turns around to poison the well to keep their lead. I love my iPad but really wish that’s not the future waiting for us.
treeman79 5y ago
Vs code with terminal in codespaces via a browser is most impressive. I still prefer local, but I was blown awat
tumblewit 5y ago
There is now a web version of vscode and you can ssh into your environment.
nlitened 5y ago
You can also connect iPad to your Mac as a second display, and put terminal there :)
ascagnel_ 5y ago
You can get some stuff running on an iPad using iSH [0], but compatibility is iffy and performance even moreso. At one point, I tried bringing a RPi4 along with me to act as a mobile dev server (it'd serve an instance of VSCode over ethernet via a USB-C/ethernet adapter on the iPad, and the iPad would share its Wifi connection to the RPi), but it was clunky to bring two devices with me. Nowadays, I use Blink Shell [1] as a mosh terminal to a remote dev server. [0]: https://ish.app https://ish.app [1]: https://blink.sh https://blink.sh

wjdp 5y ago

Honestly sounds like you might want a tiling window manager Most of the time a workspace only has a single app in it and when I want a terminal side-by-side it's just one button press away.