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Coding on a phone really isn't something new. With tmux a lot of people created crazy things directly on their phone. In some countries this even is the only po
by Aldipower 10mo ago
Coding on a phone really isn't something new. With tmux a lot of people created crazy things directly on their phone. In some countries this even is the only possibility to code at all, because there are no laptops.
The example use case images are very funny though! :-)
- epolanski 10mo agoWhich countries in the world don't sell laptops?
- robertfw 10mo agothere are going to be quite a lot of places where getting a laptop is a considerable expense
- epolanski 10mo agoWhy does it have to be a laptop, and why does it need to be new? There aren't that many places in 2025 where getting a phone with internet is significantly cheaper than getting some scrappy laptop or desktop.
- basisword 10mo ago>> There aren't that many places in 2025 where getting a phone with internet is significantly cheaper than getting some scrappy laptop or desktop. No, but it's not a choice between a phone and a laptop. You NEED a phone. So you use what you've got. I've done work helping developers in less developed countries and you frequently find they're sending screenshots of code they've written on phones.
- herewulf 9mo agoI think I'll take any LLM slop code over the written-on-phone-by-"developers" slop code.
- guywithahat 10mo agoI assume he means people are too poor to have multiple devices, and if you only have one it's probably a phone. That said I'm dubious anyone who only has a phone is doing meaningful coding
- fataleszumittag 10mo agoThere is this guy: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecomment-2522199537 https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecom.... I haven‘t used his plugin, but it seems quite popular (+3k stars). I guess ergonomics don‘t matter so much yet when you are young..
- guywithahat 10mo agoHuh, makes you wonder if it's actually doing it on his phone or if he has a keyboard and maybe dock and monitor he attaches it to. I suppose my original comment was too broad, there was a point not too long ago when everyone wanted to replace their laptop with their phone. Samsung even let you dual boot linux from your phone with DeX
- greggh 10mo agoFollowing that story as it happened, it was all on the phone with the phone keyboard and he somehow made multiple good Neovim plugins including that very popular one (which I use in multiple configs).
- 4k93n2 10mo agoneovim is probably the only sane way you could code like this on a small screen. everything works pretty much the same way it does on a desktop terminal, the only thing you have to get used to is having so many lines wrapped, and not having quick access to some characters like $ or ^, but they can just be added to the toolbar in termux
- herewulf 9mo ago
- gmueckl 10mo agoThere are countries where the market for PCs and laptops is really tiny and the stores sell them at markups compared to US/European prices. Many of these countries are low wage countries, too, so these markups have a big impact on affordability.
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- cyberrock 10mo agoHaving the means doesn't mean the would-be programmer is in charge of the purse. I got my start coding at the local library because my parents wouldn't get me my own computer until I was in high school.