[nottorp]

What does this do in plain english?

It seems to either run vscode in a browser tab on ios or start an instance on a desktop that edits files on ios or run something in a 'cloud'...

I suppose it makes sense at a first glance if you know what all the other stuff referred to in the article is, but otherwise ... not really.

[theshrike79]

Blink.sh is a terminal/ssh client for iOS

They have integrated VSCode APIs so that you can run VSCode web locally while editing files either on the iPad filesystem or on a remote server.

You can get a similar experience by running a web version of VSCode, like with Github Codespaces or Amazon's similar offering, but this can be run 100% locally if you want to.

[nottorp]

Thanks!

Another 300 years and ipads will be usable as developer systems :)

In the mean time, I think I'll keep my mbpro around...

[1oooqooq]

now that apple have to allow other sources for software, what is preventing Mozilla, chrome, vscode from actually running in ios?

[blep-arsh]

If I remember correctly: iOS is preventing apps from running any generated code that's not signed ahead of time (it's allowed for browsers specifically for JIT but not for IDEs, I believe); spawning processes and loading new dylibs is also forbidden so it's still very inconvenient.

[nottorp]

Also I don't want to depend on anyone's cloud service to get my work on and off an iPad.

[1oooqooq]

besides apple you mean?

and what installing Firefox on ios have to do with someone's cloud?

[stetrain]

If you're in the EU that should be possible, although the software is still limited to using Apple's public approved APIs since Apple still has a security notarization process software can be installed from third-party sources.