[rmorey]

see also: iSH for iOS (https://ish.app/)

[giancarlostoro]

The key caveat being that iSH does x86 emulation to achieve this, but otherwise it seems to looks pretty darn nice. I have yet to try it but now that I've switched over to iOS I may just download it to compare usage vs Termux.

[dr_hooo]

Quick question as I'm giving this a spin (thanks!!). How do I go about installing an ssh client? Or is that only available in the testflight version?

[onedr0p]

SSH works, see their wiki[1] for installing apk. After that run apk add openssh.

1. https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/Installing-apk

[jeromenerf]

It is great but slow and 32bit.

[brirec]

It’s not that slow...

[jeromenerf]

It is. The design, somehow dictated by Apple constraints, makes it so.

I find it usable as a text editor, git client and ssh client, which is great really. Any lightweight CLI usage should feel great.

I was hoping to run go and python code locally, but even installing deps, not to mention running tests is unreliably slow.

[saagarjha]

No dynamic code generation for apps on the App Store :(

[saagarjha]

It’s pretty slow; usually somewhere between 10 and 100 times slower for most language runtimes. On newer devices this is less of a big deal, but only because they are ridiculously fast.

[onedr0p]

It took 2-3 minutes to generate a SSH key... I would consider that slow. I still use it almost every day though, I was able to get kubectl to work!

[Valkhyr]

iSH is great, I have it on my iPad (my phone is a Pixel with Termux), but performance is atrocious due to the emulation.

Maybe it's better on the most recent Apple SoCs, but on my iPad mini just opening a small text file in vim takes a second or two (instant on Termux/any other CLI I've used in the last decade.

Rsync is so slow as to be useless - I think because it takes forever to calculate the diff.