Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019

Re:Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019 by akerl_ on Thursday January 03, 2019 @07:35PM (#18820891)

I'd say coding using just a touchscreen would be terrible, but keep in mind that tablets aren't limited to just the touchscreen. In fact, you can plug a full-sized mechanical keyboard into an iPad (though the more common keyboard is likely the smartcover.

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Re:Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019 by ianai on Thursday January 03, 2019 @07:46PM (#18820962)

I got the Bluetooth kinesis for just this reason. It’s ergonomic. You can pair it with up to 3 devices and switch between them with a key combo.

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Re:Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019 by zozbot123 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @07:54PM (#18821030)

> I'd say coding using just a touchscreen would be terrible

Text-based coding, sure. But the jury is still out for visual programming systems, of either the Scratch (syntax expressed via custom "puzzle pieces") or the LabVIEW (flow-based semantics) kind.

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Re:Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019 by michaelmrose on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:21PM (#18821943)

How is the jury still out given that nobody uses anything like this for anything real beyond learning and labview dates back to 1983 and scratch to the early 2000s.

Language is the means by which human beings describe abstract data in a dense concise easy to encode and decode fashion. This is true whether its spoken or written. That it is the means we express code is unsurprising.

Lets put it another way. I'm typing this response to you on a keyboard. Can you imagine a way via drawing a picture that I could have in moments conveyed these thoughts by drawing you a picture?

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Re:Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019 by dboreham on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:27PM (#18821962)

See figure 1?

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Re:Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019 by flukus on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:55PM (#18821349)

> But the jury is still out for visual programming systems

How many more decades of failure do we need before we decide the jury is in and visual programming is a dead end?

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Re:Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019 by threeseed on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:49PM (#18822036)

There are actually a number of highly successful visual programming tools. They are just hidden underneath the veneer of something else.

https://www.alteryx.com/products/alteryx-platform/alteryx-de...

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Re:Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019 by akerl_ on Thursday January 03, 2019 @07:57PM (#18821049)

Agreed. Basically all my programming is backend / CLI projects. I'd almost certainly have had a different result if I'd tried writing frontend (especially native) apps from an iPad

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