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Codea is a really nice lua development environment for the iPad and can also be used to create App Store apps (though you need to use Xcode to build the app bun

by simonh 4y ago

Codea is a really nice lua development environment for the iPad and can also be used to create App Store apps (though you need to use Xcode to build the app bundle). There are quite a few others but I think Codea is noteworthy. Honestly the whoLe ‘I wish I could code on my iPad’ thing and complaining kids can’t learn to code on them, has been tired for a very, very long time. Many of these dev environments came out more than 10 years ago now. Being able to develop in swift and publish to the App Store directly for the device for free was announced at WWDC and released last year, but people still keep moaning about it. Pay attention people!

humanwhosits 4y ago
What you suggest are not what people are actually complaining about. Those suggested dev environments are very constrained
lawik 4y ago
I still can't feasibly code and build things in an arbitrary language of my choice. I like my iPad Pro quite a bit but the only way I can do the type of web app dev I normally do through it is by remoting. I don't believe there are any well-established general text editors that offers decent git and text editing. Syntax highlighting for a few langs, etc. And then language runtimes. I do Elixir so I need Erlang plus Elixir. The machine could run those fine but I don't think you would be allowed to ship those via Apple's store. Plenty of limitations. Kids can probably learn to code on them, depending on what they want and like. The argumenta may be tired but so are the unsolved unsolved problems I feel.
- simonh 4y ago
  Of course it has limitations, sure. iPads aren’t general purpose, open systems. That’s just not in their nature. They’re still programmable though and there are many options for doing so. Koder and Textastic are pretty comprehensive coding editors. Working Copy is the premiere git client and works well with both.

by simonh 4y ago

humanwhosits 4y ago

What you suggest are not what people are actually complaining about. Those suggested dev environments are very constrained

lawik 4y ago

I still can't feasibly code and build things in an arbitrary language of my choice. I like my iPad Pro quite a bit but the only way I can do the type of web app dev I normally do through it is by remoting. I don't believe there are any well-established general text editors that offers decent git and text editing. Syntax highlighting for a few langs, etc. And then language runtimes. I do Elixir so I need Erlang plus Elixir. The machine could run those fine but I don't think you would be allowed to ship those via Apple's store. Plenty of limitations. Kids can probably learn to code on them, depending on what they want and like. The argumenta may be tired but so are the unsolved unsolved problems I feel.

simonh 4y ago
Of course it has limitations, sure. iPads aren’t general purpose, open systems. That’s just not in their nature. They’re still programmable though and there are many options for doing so. Koder and Textastic are pretty comprehensive coding editors. Working Copy is the premiere git client and works well with both.