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Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

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Re: Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

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Post by fartcannon »

pjmlp wrote: post #64
rwalle wrote: post #30

> Easily develop software, view code or take notes on the go "Develop software", which means writing code without the ability to run them, or the ability to compile multiple files as a "project", like all the other code editors on iOS? I stopped paying attention to these apps because of how App artificially limit what apps can do. Writing Java offline? Good, but you can compile one class at a time, and the possibilit…

I guess your search is somehow limited, https://developer.apple.com/swift-playgrounds https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pythonista-3/id1085978097 https://codea.io/ https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/continuous-net-c-and-f-ide/id1...

I've never used those. Can you write and release the code for anyone to modify/install and run on their iPhones without Apples approval?

Because if so, that's great.

Re: Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

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Post by jll29 »

uuyi wrote: post #62
ericlewis wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Problem: don’t want to bring thing that must be attached to a keyboard at all times to be useful. Solution: iPad.

That's a terrible causal relation. Run a KT decision analysis. The iPad will never come out as the device you actually end up writing code on if you're honest with yourself.

What I see a lot at airports is: people traveling with ALL of the following:

- mobile phone

- iPad

- Laptop

So each time another smaller device gets invented people just _add_ it instead of the smaller devices replacing the bigger ones. So despite all the technical integration, the weight of people's hand luggage (gadgets + adaptors) actually goes up, not down!

Re: Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

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Post by alephnan »

rwalle wrote: post #30

> Easily develop software, view code or take notes on the go "Develop software", which means writing code without the ability to run them, or the ability to compile multiple files as a "project", like all the other code editors on iOS? I stopped paying attention to these apps because of how App artificially limit what apps can do. Writing Java offline? Good, but you can compile one class at a time, and the possibilit…

Why should Apple be obligated to make their hardware open? You have the option of not buying Apple products. Apple is not forcing anyone to buy their products. Apple is a private company. The vast majority of their customers don’t need to worry about compiling their own software. Apple is selling a product for the average consumer. Arguably, Apple doesn’t want hardcore users like yourself as a user. Hardcore users are nit picky and complain a lot. They are not selling raw hackable hardware. If that was a sufficiently compelling market , another player would have provided comparable hardware/software/platform already. What we have is a few niche Linux hardware makers, but they aren’t reaching the scale of Apple because I guess the business is not a Scalable.

Re: Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

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Post by breakfastduck »

uuyi wrote: post #63
ericlewis wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a person who codes on MacBooks and iPads and also uses them for fun.. You’re missing the segment of people who are traveling and don’t want to take their entire MacBook places. Even if it’s smaller, I can’t simply detach it’s screen and hold it to watch Netflix or such. I often take on the extra size an iPad may have for size versatility down the road. One doesn’t always have or want to figure out a flat surface t…

> You’re missing the segment of people who are traveling and don’t want to take their entire MacBook places. Even if it’s smaller, I can’t simply detach it’s screen and hold it to watch Netflix or such. This is the solution being applied before the problem again. It is a case of applying compromises to fit the solution into the available device rather than look at the problem and choose a device suitable for it. I tr…

"I dont do that so the market position doesn't make sense"

Re: Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

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Post by mastax »

spicybright wrote: post #65
ramraj07 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Used to be on android and it wasn’t that much better either. I love the GitHub app, and with good CICD I have made many PRs from my phone itself and let the GitHub actions tell me if I did something wrong (though creating PRs I need to open the website). If I can get a really good code editor integrated with GitHub I can totally see myself working half my day from the phone.

That's a bit surprising actually. The play store kinda sucks but I generally can find more flexible apps on there than iOS store. I see a lot of people run an SSH client to a server in order to edit and run code. Is that an option for you?

There's ssh clients on iOS as well.

There's termux which is a linux userland compiled for Android, more or less. I vaguely remember some play store policy issues with that. Last time I tried it I couldn't install anything as they were out of CDN quota for the packages.

Re: Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

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Post by msh »

falcolas wrote: post #68
emrah wrote: post #58

On Mac/iOS, Notes is hard to beat honestly. No I can't code in it, but I don't want to code on my phone and on my laptop I have other tools to code in, sorry..

I will agree that Notes is pretty awesome. But, and it's a big but, it's not at all portable across OS. This bit me recently as I had to switch to a PC for recording, and the sudden loss of access to all my notes was a bigger blow than I'd expected. I took that as a sign, and take notes with synced text and markdown files now.

All your notes are available on icloud.com

Re: Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

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Post by joeman1000 »

monkin wrote: post #47
celeritascelery wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel the same. Until the iPad can run emacs it will always a “toy” device.

I’m probably from alternative universe, but I just managed to work and play with Doom Emacs on my iPad.

How did you do this?
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