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Pros:
- hardware: the keyboard is good, no connection issues, fast NVMe if you get the 128Gb model, LTE option to be always on
- windows: WSL, stable, good experience
- linux: great support if you are using the linux-surface kernel branch (only the webcams are not working - everything else works)
Anyone 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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> What's wrong with trying something out to see if it's ready yet? It will never be ready, it's the wrong tool for the job. Trying to use the wrong tool for the job is stupid, do you routinely try to hammer nails with a screwdriver to see if it's ready yet?
Hammers, nails, and screws a pretty much set. They're not changing regularly. An iPad becoming a laptop-replacement is happening - its progress is debatable, but it's definitely changing on each iteration.
Microsoft seems to have a much clearer vision here and anecdotally I know quite a few people that have been Mac users for ages that have given up on iPads and bought Surface devices because they can use them to do real work.
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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.
Oh I know. I use it for AWS development, that's why I'm asking.
I 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…
Not mentioned in the post, Blink can do port forwarding with the usual ssh tool (ssh -L 5000:localhost:5000 myhost.com). It also provides a shell-like mode of interaction with the local file system and iCloud, so you can `scp` files around between the iPad and your server.
I 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?
Also an excellent tablet when you’re doing non-coding stuff.
I 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?
I 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?
The other features of the iPad made it desirable for me, over carrying a laptop, and the remote VM solved the "how can I write code while only carrying around an iPad" problem. The fact that I'm doing it by using the iPad as a thin client for a remote VM is mostly transparent for me, given my use case.
Swift Playgrounds is cool.