Anyone tried Cloud9 on an iPad Pro?
Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
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#32> You Probably Can’t Run Your Code on iOS Unless It’s Python What about JavaScript? IIRC React Native uses the JavaScriptCore engine, which Apple offers to "provide the ability to evaluate JavaScript programs from within Swift, Objective-C, and C-based apps". [1] [1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/javascriptcore
There's also REPLete, a clojurescript repl for iOS and Android.
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#33Swift Playgrounds is cool.
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#34I'm struggling to work out why anyone would want to do this. Leaving aside the other concerns, I personally find input via touchscreen pretty painful and can't imagine being able to program at any real speed. It's entirely possible I'm missing something though!
I'd say coding using just a touchscreen would be terrible, but keep in mind that tablets aren't limited to just the touchscreen. In fact, you can plug a full-sized mechanical keyboard into an iPad (though the more common keyboard is likely the smartcover.
I got the Bluetooth kinesis for just this reason. It’s ergonomic. You can pair it with up to 3 devices and switch between them with a key combo.
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#35Anyone tried Cloud9 on an iPad Pro?
Cloud9 shuttered once they got bought by AWS and now they're built into the AWS console/ecosystem. I tried it but found it pretty terrible given a couple shots at it. I found Termius + a development server (EC2 instance, much like Cloud9 sets up for you anyway) much more reliable and easy to use.
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#36The iPad Pro will become a viable "pro" device when they finally stop artificially holding it back by not allowing a full version of Safari. Edit: and of course mouse/trackpad support
What’s missing?
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#37If I could code on an iPad Pro, I’d finally get rid of my MacBook Pro. I think that’s exactly why apple doesn’t allow this at all...
Can you explain the appeal?
As a long time iPhone and iPad owner, I find iOS intolerable and it gets worse with every release.
Coding on an iPad would be like trying to prepare a 5 course dinner on a kid's Fisher Price kitchen or building an intricate model with Duplo Lego bricks. Maybe possible, but a terrible experience.
So what am I missing?
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#38If Node-red wasn't such a mess, had a better UI (less mouse/typing required, touchscreen-friendly) and a proper native runtime on ios, I'd fancy using it...
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#39I actually just recently tried to use an iPad Pro for coding (more specifically, I tried to not use my laptop at all for several days, fully replacing it with an iPad). My experience was that coding was definitely not as smooth as on my laptop, but I took an approach several folks here have called out: using a cloud-based VM and connecting to it remotely. I used the Termius app, which was pretty solid. I got my initi…
It seems like in this case you're not really coding "on" an iPad and it's really just more of a dumb terminal. Wouldn't any device with a browser be just as good in this case?
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#40I haven’t looked into it beyond typing a couple of lines into the terminal but I’m wondering how useful iSh will be for people trying to go down this road. From https://ish.app - “iSH is a project to get a Linux shell environment running locally on your iOS device, using a usermode x86 emulator.”
I’ve been using this for the past few days on an iPad, and so far, it’s been great. There are plenty of syscalls that aren’t working, but it’s far more functional that I anticipated. In fact, playing with iSH on my phone for a month or so is what convinced me to get the iPad at all.
I haven’t been able to try too much coding in iSH as opposed to SSHing out to a server, but that’s one use-case that’s on their radar.