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Re:Nova by Panic by gorbypark on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:19PM (#24498669)
VS Code is built with Electron, so making an iPad VSCode would require porting Electron to Safari (Apple doesn’t allow alternative browser engines on iOS) . That should be doable seeing as the VSCode ports to the web seem to work okayish on Safari, but it world be a pretty big undertaking.
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Re:Nova by Panic by panopticon on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:53PM (#24498970)
I use code-server[0] to access VSCode on my iPad in Safari, and it works pretty well. There are some rough edges, but (aside from the better shortcut integration and UI polish) I don't think a native app is going to provide a lot benefit because I can't execute arbitrary code on the iPad anyway. You're going to end up with a mostly remote experience either way.

[0]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server

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Re:Nova by Panic by emmanueloga_ on Thursday September 17, 2020 @04:51AM (#24502468)
There's also Theia [1].

1: https://theia-ide.org/docs/composing_applications/

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Re:Nova by Panic by connor4312 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:37PM (#24498820)
Codespaces works on iPad already https://github.com/features/codespaces

It was a big undertaking :)

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Re:Nova by Panic by rhodysurf on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:53AM (#24504602)
Do people have access to this yet? Been waiting forever
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