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Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by [deleted] »

Firmwarrior wrote: post #47
csmeyer wrote: post #30

I think it's great that they've identified cursor placement as one of the trickier aspects of coding on a phone. The joystick is a great idea, I found it a bit hard to use at first (kind of flies around the screen) but the little buttons are good for getting your cursor inside a string literal, for example. I'm excited to get my students trying this, many of them only have a school issued iPad. I'm also curious about…

How's it compare to the "space bar trick" on iOS? That thing usually seems to work to let me position the cursor how I want

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Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by javier123454321 »

I mean, I think this is just the start. If I am able to create entire environments all cloud based, I can then just use an ipad when I'm travelling. Ok, not ideal for everything, but this is a use case that I've been waiting for a while and it's just not quite there yet. Eventually I can see there's people that will get to employable levels of coding proficiency without understanding the underlying complexities of environments, and the hardware which is running your code. This is problematic in some sense, but an incredible abstraction which can increase productivity in the other hand. Overall, I see this as an amazing positive.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by yieldcrv »

boberoni wrote: post #62

I read on another comment by a high school teacher that many of their students write essays on mobile. It seems that the younger generations are mobile-digital native, as opposed to desktop-digital native. I don't expect desktop apps to be completely replaced by mobile apps, but the migration of some specific use cases is interesting to watch: - Maps and navigation - Email / instant messaging - Photo editing - Video…

I recently read that many young people only use email for some professional communication

And its chat for everything else, including professional things, which also matches my experience lately I just didn't think about it

So then I started messaging young recruiters over chat apps and they are much more receptive than following up over linkedin/email

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by troupe »

boberoni wrote: post #62

I read on another comment by a high school teacher that many of their students write essays on mobile. It seems that the younger generations are mobile-digital native, as opposed to desktop-digital native. I don't expect desktop apps to be completely replaced by mobile apps, but the migration of some specific use cases is interesting to watch: - Maps and navigation - Email / instant messaging - Photo editing - Video…

Is it because they are "mobile-digital native" or is it because what they are being asked to write is closer to texting than a normal high school level English paper? I've seen what community college teachers are having kids submit for papers. While they do definitely look like they could have been written on a phone, it isn't because they have some type of skill in writing on mobile.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by bogota »

javier123454321 wrote: post #72

I mean, I think this is just the start. If I am able to create entire environments all cloud based, I can then just use an ipad when I'm travelling. Ok, not ideal for everything, but this is a use case that I've been waiting for a while and it's just not quite there yet. Eventually I can see there's people that will get to employable levels of coding proficiency without understanding the underlying complexities of en…

People have already got to that level without understanding the environment and hardware. I have worked with them and spent a lot of time explaining how the system works.

I personally don’t understand how people enjoy programming without understanding the stack they are ontop of but im sure some C and assembly programmers said the same thing about most of us today.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by lupire »

amasad wrote: post #23
neb_b wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is mostly aimed at people who don't have the luxury of coding from a computer. 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…

Yes we have stories from all over the world where people are using mobile to build real things. There is a kid in Egypt, for example, that built discord bots for a living on his phone. Additionally there are also lots of cases were fairly well off folks with access to desktop computers and wifi that find themselves with a phone and want to prototype an idea or make a quick change to a project. I’ve been using it and…

I appreciate the spirit but you are going to destroy your eyes doing that. At least grab a tablet.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by lupire »

ebiester wrote: post #38
gmaster1440 wrote: post #14

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…

This may be an example of skating to where the puck is at. Consider that the new iPad has the same power as a desktop and can be used with a desktop monitor. (This is the $450 version.) You can also connect an iPhone to a display to an HDMI monitor, but they haven't done the work to have a desktop mode yet. Android desktop mode but they haven't been . If iphone cracks it, android will have to catch up. Phones have th…

What do you call a phone with a big external keyboard and display?

A developer machine like that is already $150, called a Chromebook or a Raspberry Pi.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by theGnuMe »

amasad wrote: post #23
neb_b wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is mostly aimed at people who don't have the luxury of coding from a computer. 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…

Yes we have stories from all over the world where people are using mobile to build real things. There is a kid in Egypt, for example, that built discord bots for a living on his phone. Additionally there are also lots of cases were fairly well off folks with access to desktop computers and wifi that find themselves with a phone and want to prototype an idea or make a quick change to a project. I’ve been using it and…

I use google remote desktop to check on some IDE code and sometimes need to type a bit of code and the default keyboard is useless...

I'd pay just for the joystick keyboard.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by tpmx »

barbazoo wrote: post #35
alexashka wrote: post #25

Isn't this entire problem addressed by having an 11" laptop? I struggle to see what this is good for, besides solving LeetCode and/or other small, isolated, well defined puzzles on a small screen.

Not everyone has a laptop is the point I think.

I think they'll make more money from relatively affluent people than from people that can't really afford access to a proper screen/keyboard with superior ergonomics.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by babl-yc »

Did anyone else learn to code on a TI-83+?

Although I doubt I'd use this in a professional setting, making coding accessible to more people sounds great to me.

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