Re:A Kindergartener’s Best Computer Is About to Die
by hakfoo on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @10:56PM
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On a conventional laptop I can run the entire stack locally.
This can be anything from "run XAMPP" to "fire up a stack of virtual machines and containers allowing you to mock up an entire data centre all on one physical box."
In contrast, an iPad is little more than an editor and/or terminal that relies on a lot of outside infrastructure to do something meaningful with what you're typing.
It's certainly not for local Windows application development, but it's great for 21st century architectures (infra as code), containerized apps, or any other CI/CD-able scenario.
With an iPad Pro, Apple's Smart Keyboard, and the lovely Working Copy + Textastic, and blink.sh Mosh/SSH client, together with a decent CI/CD (commit code, deploy to dev) pipeline in place, you're good.
See also Buffer, GoCodeEditor, Koder, etc. Several of these happen to be 50% off atm.
Don't forget you can remote desktop to GUI things too, from Citrix to RDP.