I use an iPad Pro 12.9 inch and a Magic Keyboard as my primary dev machine and I love it. I have large bare metal servers I can connect to where I run vim+tmux

I use an iPad Pro 12.9 inch and a Magic Keyboard as my primary dev machine and I love it. I have large bare metal servers I can connect to where I run vim+tmux using Termius. I also have a desktop, MacBook Pro, and a Thinkpad so I actively choose to use the iPad. The beauty of the iPad is I can tote it around in a small bag everywhere, it has cellular, and when I’m not deving I can pull it off and watch movies, play games, draw using the best tablet out there. My whole setup can also be used with emacs. I have an emacs config as well and have tested using Eglot etc - basically the same setup as what I have in Vim. The real power move here is to stick to a terminal based workflow. GUIs lock you down to a machine and a platform. Using a terminal based editor, tmux, etc. allows you to be instantly portable, infinitely flexible, and allows you to work anywhere. SSH is also the other power tool. I mean SSH is actually insane. If you understand SSH agent forwarding, port forwarding, proxy jumping, you can actually be anywhere with any keys you want, proxy dev as a prod environment, use services on any computer anywhere you want, it’s absolutely incredible what you can do with SSH.