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They actually have that one covered with Swift Playgrounds: https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/ https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/ You can, in fact,
by kemayo 4y ago
They actually have that one covered with Swift Playgrounds: https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/ https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
You can, in fact, write an app and publish it to Apple's App Store with it, all from an iPad. I have no idea how much actual uptake this has seen, since I think the capability only came out at the start of the year?
- hot_gril 4y agoThis is probably fixed now, but around the days of Swift versions 1-3, Playgrounds were straight up broken. Very basic programs would segfault the compiler. I feel bad for any kids who may have been introduced to programming that way.
- dwaite 4y agoVery simple programs would segfault the compiler in 1-3 as well. You'd most often notice this as your syntax highlighting went away for a period of time.
- hot_gril 4y agoYeah, but it was even worse in Playgrounds somehow. They were unusable even for testing a one-line piece of code.
- saagarjha 4y agoThe new Swift Playgrounds is far better than what came before it. Those versions were pretty much unusable for sustained work.
- makeitdouble 4y agoPlaygrounds is mostly a local running environment if I am right ? If you teach a class, having a CI build and run the programs, potentially taking screenshots for you to review later could be a pretty good use case, especially for remote home work.