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Re:The Failure of the iPad by Someone on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:38AM (#22182466)
”On an ipad, a user can only buy them wholesale.”

Not quite. There’s Shortcuts (https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios).

Limited? Yes, but not nothing, either. This _may_ evolve into something that’s more powerful.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by ashildr on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:35PM (#22187238)
...and there’s pythonista: http://omz-software.com/pythonista/ ,I have some python shortcuts I use. And something similar for Lua, and some variants of julyter notebooks. I oftne use Panic’s code editor (formerly coda) and workingcopy for my git repos.
Re:The Failure of the iPad by kstrauser on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:14PM (#22187558)
BTW, you might check out Pyto. I’ve completely replaced Pythonista with it (YMMV, of course), and it has the enormous advantage that it’s actively developed with new releases very frequently.