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Is there any hope for a native desktop app?
Presently on iOS it appears this is an iPhone app that doesn't scale to iPad screen dimensions, even when expanded. It's using between a third and a half of the available viewport in landscape orientation. That said, it appears to work pretty well in side-by-side mode, concurrently with another app, but it still uses about half the available viewport in this mode. I expect this will get addressed PDQ.
I struggle to see this as one of those "bicycle for the mind" products, hope I'm wrong!
Very very cool. Have been thinking about this for Darklang for a while. One thing that's changed since I started thinking about it is how big a deal AI assist is. Originally, I thought a structured editor would be essential, but now while it's helpful, I think AI assist can do like 90% the benefit you get.
A very annoying bug is that the first chatacter is a capital letter in mobile. And parentheses are not suggested along with brackets and curly braces.
It would be cool to have a built-in coding keyboard that adapts to the language being written via plugins, etc.
This is one of those examples for me where the idea is far superior than the implementation. The idea of anyone being able to quickly write code from anywhere, as the main promo video suggests, is fantastic and greatly motivating. In practice, coding on an iPhone (even with an innovative new joystick), is gimmicky at best, given how deeply ingrained good ergonomics are in the coding process. I struggle to see this as…
See this tweet from the CEO: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1582754947480793093
> We partnered with @TeamMindjoy to test the app by teaching girls how to code in a South African township and we made a video about it. During this time the wifi was super unstable and the few laptops they had were unusable, but kids continued to code on $100 Android phones!
Presently on iOS it appears this is an iPhone app that doesn't scale to iPad screen dimensions, even when expanded. It's using between a third and a half of the available viewport in landscape orientation. That said, it appears to work pretty well in side-by-side mode, concurrently with another app, but it still uses about half the available viewport in this mode. I expect this will get addressed PDQ.
I think their main focus is allowing people to code who only have a mobile phone, so my guess is iPad is a lower priority (because most people with iPads have full size computers they can use instead).
This is one of those examples for me where the idea is far superior than the implementation. The idea of anyone being able to quickly write code from anywhere, as the main promo video suggests, is fantastic and greatly motivating. In practice, coding on an iPhone (even with an innovative new joystick), is gimmicky at best, given how deeply ingrained good ergonomics are in the coding process. I struggle to see this as…
Besides, in the future, more advances in AI might mean, folks only need to key in prompts.