iPad Pro as Development Machine
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iPad Pro as Development Machine
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#2Too much configuration to even get started!! and the fact that you can't work offline makes this setup so much worse than a regular laptop for my regular use :( I wish there was a better dev environment on the ipad already
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#3>If you’re using the iPad Pro in the mindset of “This is going to be my main work machine”, then you’ll be living in constant fear.
I feel like this should be the opening line, not buried in the ending notes.
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#4I use an iPad Pro, and no, it doesn’t work as an ideal Dev machine. However it’s great for code review, as a slack machine, em, and basically everything that is outside the realm of a terminal and a text editor.
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#5I get excited every time I see an article about using the iPad Pro for development. But then it always turns out that people just use blink to ssh/mosh into another machine.
I really wish I could have native Emacs on the iPad. It is one of the fastest and lightest machines around, phenomenally lightweight and with a great battery life. It has a pretty good keyboard attachment. And Emacs even without a native shell would work pretty well (using Tramp for editing remote files).
And no, Emacs via a shell is not nearly enough. You can't get enough modifiers through the TTY, so it ends up being crippled. And no, Apple is not likely to reject it, apps with interpreters have been getting in for several years now. And even if Apple were to reject it, there is nothing that prevents people (as in, me, for example) from compiling Emacs myself and loading it onto my iPad (these are common misconceptions, so I'd rather clear them up right away).
I think I might end up funding a bounty, perhaps someone is willing to shave this yak.
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#6So... this is just another one of those "create a remote server to use as the main development machine"?
What if I want to work in areas of little or rubbish connectivity?
Tools such as docker, etc don't exist just to run things on a remote server.
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#7This falls under fetish category.
Steve Jobs' Post PC world analogy was off in that PCs are the cars, trucks, convertibles etc. and tablets are the scooter. Yes you can do all your grocery shopping on the scooter given the groceries fit, the shop isn't too far away, it's not raining, the mileage will be good etc - you making that one successful grocery trip doesn't mean scooter is a car replacement.
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#8This topic comes up every month or so, and there's always this catch:
> we need to first create a remote workstation which we can start using as our main development machine.
A dumb terminal isn't a development machine. That's like saying "Using my DEC VT100 terminal to develop in Go", let me just hook it up to an actual computer
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#9I wouldn't feel confortable putting my secrets in a remote server with a public IP (IPv6 might be a better idea as it's less guessable).
Also seems a bit over-engineered, I would just ssh into a server and do everything from there as a normal user.
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#10Too much configuration to even get started!! and the fact that you can't work offline makes this setup so much worse than a regular laptop for my regular use :( I wish there was a better dev environment on the ipad already
Why do you wish that? It sounds horrible. Why not just use a laptop (the right tool for the job).