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As someone who has done a non-trivial amount of coding work directly on my phone, I'll say you just get good at being able to type the symbols you need (though
by saurik 4y ago
As someone who has done a non-trivial amount of coding work directly on my phone, I'll say you just get good at being able to type the symbols you need (though I agree it isn't great; but like, that's what BASIC is for, and I certainly spent a ton of time coding BASIC on my old TI calculators ;P). I also frankly find my phone to be an extremely pleasant device to "sit in one place and think", and given how many games and media consumption apps exist for phones I'm surprised that isn't more obvious ;P. Like, often when I want to seriously think about something, I'll go pick up my phone and lie down in bed, pulling up the notes app--or ssh'ing to a server and using vim--to work on stuff without all of the worldly distractions of having to sit at my desk.
- still_grokking 4y agoI've seen the youth doing this nowadays. But just watching it causes severe physical pain in me. Everything is awkward, and painful slow. In the time you would have written a page of code on a desktop in an IDE you hardly manage to write a few lines of working code on a phone. Alone the fact that you can't use keyboard shortcuts efficiently is more than crippling! Not to mention the extremely tiny screen on a phone. On a desktop you have for serous work 2, or better 3 screens (or some big wide one), for a reason. And regarding deep thinking: The best setting for that is imho not the desktop, nor the bed. Best for thinking is actually walking around, while not being distracted by anything else.
- wruza 4y agoIt’s neither awkward nor slow, it’s just tooling that sucks (we have to type in a bare textarea, which is designed for text). Add some helpers and keys to the keyboard and it’s done. Like an email field makes your on-screen kbd have @ and . characters, you can add {} and [] and autoindent. Best for thinking is actually walking around, while not being distracted by anything else. Fwiw my best ideas were born in a bathroom.
- wiseowise 4y ago> It’s neither awkward nor slow Compared to mouse and keyboard it is.