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Re:The Failure of the iPad by threeseed on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:24PM (#22185997)
Actually most developers would stay in two apps. Browser and IDE.

Probably the use case that is best suited to an iPad.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by gburdell3 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:41PM (#22186768)
How exactly do I run Visual Studio Professional on an iPad? Desktop developers exist too, you know.
Re:The Failure of the iPad by sjwright on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:38PM (#22187754)
How exactly do I transport a 10 foot ladder on a motorbike?

Of course that’s a silly analogy—there’s no technical reason why Visual Studio couldn’t be ported to run on iPad.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by samatman on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:56PM (#22188959)
Go to Indonesia and you'll see an answer to that question sooner or later.

Most impressive thing I saw was two bundles of 12 foot rebar. I was reminded of jousting.

Re:The Failure of the iPad by pjmlp on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:11AM (#22190013)
You don't, but you get to use Continuous instead.
Re:The Failure of the iPad by p1necone on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @07:16PM (#22187594)
You can't even compile and run code on a (mobile) Apple device. It's explicitly against the app store terms and conditions to allow users to do that.
Re:The Failure of the iPad by nessus42 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:33PM (#22188118)
> You can't even compile and run code on a (mobile) Apple device. It's explicitly against the app store terms and conditions to allow users to do that.

You better inform Apple then, that the Python IDEs that are available in the App Store need to be banned!

Re:The Failure of the iPad by monocasa on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:05PM (#22188265)
Last time I checked, the exact rules were that all of the code had to be either typed in by the user or included by the app. So there's no real way to share code or collaborate other copy pasting into text windows.
Re:The Failure of the iPad by nessus42 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:19PM (#22188336)
I haven't used Pythonista myself, and it is true that, as I understand it, Pythonista doesn't directly provide the capability to use "pip" or pull code from GitHub. But it seems that these issues have been addressed via plugins for Pythonista. E.g.,

https://github.com/ywangd/stash

Re:The Failure of the iPad by pjmlp on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:10AM (#22190006)
An me thinking I had such a plethora of coding app environments installed.