Re:Ask HN: What is a good phone for to write code on?
by davelnewton on Friday May 11, 2018 @04:27PM
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None. Even tablets are considerably less than optimal (believe me, I've been trying for years now). Nothing on iOS has been suitable (caveat: I have not tried in the last six months), Android offerings tend to be better.
Java is even worse than some of the other options because of the syntactic noise: too many special characters are required in too many places.
At best you could do some limited code generation if you used some GUI-oriented block mechanism (e.g., Blockly that outputs Java code), but phone displays are small even for that limited form of interaction.
Java is even worse than some of the other options because of the syntactic noise: too many special characters are required in too many places.
At best you could do some limited code generation if you used some GUI-oriented block mechanism (e.g., Blockly that outputs Java code), but phone displays are small even for that limited form of interaction.