[theduro]

Why none of the top comments on a site called Hacker News are about the fact that this is far from anything that could be used for software development surprises me. Only feasible way to use this for dev would be using a cloud IDE, since I have no access to the OS or ability to install dependencies.

I love the idea of the iPad becoming something that could replace a laptop, but for me I wait for the day when I can at the very least have sandbox access to the filesystem, and OS kernel to be able to set it up for local development.

Why Apple continues to refuse support for BSD Jails or the sort confuses me.

[thedaemon]

Not all of us are developers. I'm a 3d artists who writes some scripts.

"A computer hacker is any skilled computer expert that uses their technical knowledge to overcome a problem."

About the BSD jails, it's probably to keep it simple for most of their user base? Power users aren't really their thing anymore. Although I bought a last generation iPad Pro with Pencil for drawing / some 2d animation. I like it better than Wacom now.

[mnem]

While my laptop was away getting fixed, I used an iPad Pro, Textastic and a linux instance on Digital Ocean to do a reasonable amount of Rust development. I was surprised how well it worked.

[odonnellryan]

For Nomads it is actually a good way to work, too, because it is more secure for your clients in a way.

[sjroot]

I agree that Apple needs to improve developer experience on the iPad. However, regarding the file system access: Apple already has a Files app that handles this very well (introduced with iOS 11).

[pier25]

I agree.

Personally I think Chrome OS will be so much better for developers once Google gets all the wrinkles ironed for Linux support.

[hrktb]

I see where you come from, but there is a lot of software that can be written without sandbox access to OS’ kernel or filesystem.

In particular, wanting to run absolutely everything in local is reasonable, but not a requirement I think.

Currently the only thing that’s really lacking is direct git integration into Coda or the other editors, and I know Panic is working on it. Git apps can be used to bridge the gap but it’s just too combersome.

Otherwise, accessing an external DB , or even having my code run on a VM somewhere else is not an issue as long as I can remotely debug.