[mhh__]

iPad in general screams of directionless product development.

I have an M1 iPad Pro. The thing is so fucking fast, just let me do a bit of coding on it.

... or let me rename file extensions.

[simonh]

You can code in Swift Playgrounds, including developing GUI apps using SwiftUI, and the next version will be able to release apps to the store directly from the iPad.

That's aside from the third party apps like Codea and Pythonista that have supported coding and app development on the iPad for about a decade. If you've not been coding on your iPad, you've been seriously missing out.

[mhh__]

That's great if you're a swift programmer...

When I can build the compiler I work on, on an iPad then I will consider it a coding platform.