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Re:iPad Pro 10.5 for Software Development on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:33AM (#14819349)
I'm sorry I haven't use Windows for a while but there latency, as you call it, is much better on Linux/MacOS based machines than on iOS. Switching between windows without waiting, multitasking all those, and more, things are much better on computer.
Re:iPad Pro 10.5 for Software Development on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @10:33AM (#14804515)
So he is not using iPad, he is using Linux machine. It's like Google employee saying: "I am running the whole Google search on my phone" after he SSH to main server. iPads, in current form, are not suitable for any efficient and high quality content creation. Of course they can be used as a "terminal" to access machines/devices that can do that but you can't really seriously work offline on it.
Re:iPad Pro 10.5 for Software Development on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @10:19AM (#14804417)
Great screens can be find on laptops too.
Re:iPad Pro 10.5 for Software Development on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @10:17AM (#14804403)
Even for web development it's useless for me. Today I had to install new package via composer, install new package via npm, do multiple gulp/grunt runs, regex trough 100k+ lines of log files, ssh multiple times to the server and build docker containers. And that's just average day at the office as PHP/JS dev / devops. Try to do that on iPad.
Re:iPad Pro 10.5 for Software Development on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @10:14AM (#14804383)
Only in benchmarks. Look at the workflow presented in article. There is no builds required nor CPU heavy processing. But there is a lot of switching between applications, multi windows etc. iOS UI is not prepared for this kind of workflow. Even the newest improvements on iPad Pro are far away from being as useful and as fast as on normal laptop.
Re:iPad Pro 10.5 for Software Development on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @09:59AM (#14804293)
What latency are you talking about? Decent PC or Mac with SSD is much faster than iPad and can hold battery trough ~9 hours (depends on a workflow).