The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by nallo on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:22AM (#22167767)

I actually use iPad for coding nowadays. It is of course slower than using a keyboard but also a quite relaxing and fun way of programming.

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by steeleduncan on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:54AM (#22167906)

After a few years of frustration with trying to make my iPad useful for coding, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 and keyboard case for about 200GBP. Install Termux from the Google Play store (no warranty voiding rooting required). `apt install clang` and off you go.

The iPad I had before this was undoubtedly prettier and had a better UI, but the cheapest iPad is twice this price and after years of buying apps, faffing with file sharing, and even porting one or two interpreters across to iOS I never managed what takes 10 minutes on Android.

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by rhlsthrm on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:33AM (#22167819)

What type of code do you write on iPad? Do you ssh into something to make it run?

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by shmoogy on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:38AM (#22169207)

I ssh, and I run a vscode server, and jupyter notebooks from my iPad.

Let's me query sql, full programming, normal IDE for NetSuite stuff I need to work on. It's great

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by nallo on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:37AM (#22167832)

PHP, html, JavaScript. Using FTP to push code directly from the app.

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by jmkni on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:10AM (#22167978)

What apps do you use for coding?

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by nallo on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:32AM (#22168403)

Textastic

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