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Re:The Failure of the iPad by threeseed on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:22PM (#22185983)
I guess us developers who are staying within a single IDE are not doing "real work".

Also what about people doing CAD, Data Science etc. they also almost always stay within one app.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by js8 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:48PM (#22186210)
> I guess us developers who are staying within a single IDE

Are you? Apart from IDE, I also run a version control system, a build system, a CI/CD system, a language runtime..

These are all from different vendors.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by jrockway on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:17PM (#22186506)
"UNIX is my IDE."
Re:The Failure of the iPad by kstrauser on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:12PM (#22187544)
This, but unironically.
Re:The Failure of the iPad by jrockway on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:36PM (#22188136)
It is kind of a shame that in the day and age of containers we can't just have Linux as an "app" on our iPads. Instead people are forced to write a worse version of everything and bundle it together as an app.

I kind of appreciate Apple's approach to simplicity. I use an iPad because I don't want to maintain another computer; syncing configuration, updating packages, etc. But it basically means that I use it as a "dumb terminal" when I hear it has a surprisingly fast processor. Seems like a waste.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by samatman on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:53PM (#22188941)
You can, iSh is a container of Alpine Linux.

I admittedly don't do much of anything with it, but it's neat to have.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by jrockway on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:03AM (#22190512)
Neat, I didn't know about that.

I wonder why they emulate x86 instead of targeting ARM though.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by dTal on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:07PM (#22195590)
It doesn't make much difference, since either way they can't run native code - iOS makes this virtually impossible.

More in depth discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18425106

Re:The Failure of the iPad by threeseed on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:30PM (#22186671)
I can commit code, build projects and deploy work all through my IDE.

It's actually why they call it IDE because it's an integrated development environment.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by pjmlp on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:07AM (#22189984)
It is called an Integrated Development Environment for a reason.
Re:The Failure of the iPad by rjsw on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:02PM (#22186352)
Most source code is portable to a different IDE if you wanted.

I work on open standards for CAD to allow portability of that and am starting to apply this to data science too.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by schwartzworld on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:55PM (#22186914)
it takes a tremendous amount of configuration to stay in your ide 100% of the time. I refuse to believe you never have to copy paste from another app into the IDE.
Re:The Failure of the iPad by threeseed on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:34PM (#22187228)
It takes about 5 minutes to configure an IDE.

Add Git credentials, importing a project takes care of the setup and build and you can create new Run tasks in most IDEs for calling a different part of your build file e.g. deploy or test.

And I occasionally copy/paste from a browser. But you can do that just fine on an iPad or iPhone.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by p1necone on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:55PM (#22197374)
For small solo dev projects sure. I've never seen a large software company that had everything running inside an IDE though.
Re:The Failure of the iPad by pjmlp on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:09AM (#22189999)
Yeah, opening the settings panel is such an effort. /s