Will Developers Finally Start Coding On the iPad?

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Will Developers Finally Start Coding On the iPad?

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 2, 2012 @07:29AM from the changing-the-way-things-are-done dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's not so long since Apple silently dropped the restriction about iOS apps for programming — iPad owners can now code in Lua with Codea or with Python for iOS. Yesterday, a new app called Kodiak PHP brought another IDE to the iPad, this time for PHP coders. Pandodaily's Nathaniel Mott describes it as a full-blooded software development tool with comparison to other iOS apps. Cult of Mac reports that the demise of the Mac might be closer than we think, but are developers really ready to use the on-screen keyboard to do some serious work?"

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Nope by majesticmerc · 2012-09-02 07:36 · Score: 4, Funny

are developers really ready to use the on-screen keyboard to do some serious work?"
Speaking for my people, No.
Comprehensive List of Computing Advantages in iPad by __aaltlg1547 · 2012-09-02 07:40 · Score: 5, Funny

* It fits in my purse.
Re:Is it just me? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-02 07:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Yes, it is just you who wants to shoot yourself.
Rational people merely want to shoot the authors of such stories.
Re:Seriously? by Forty+Two+Tenfold · 2012-09-02 07:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh they will. As soon as Tim Cook does this.

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Re:No... by muon-catalyzed · 2012-09-02 07:56 · Score: 4, Funny

Please, we need programs not apps. Stuff doesn't get done in crippled wooden UI half baked apps. Developers need things like functioning file system, interoperating programs, real task switching, stable kernel, yes, kernel that doesn't crash your 6 hour hard work without even flashing an error. On Linux or Windows you at least get an error and 1st party programs do not hard crash there. Can't really wait for Windows 8 and some solid hardware company like Lenovo or Sony to give me a real system worth coding on - a real tablet experience.
Emacs by gentryx · 2012-09-02 08:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Not until there is an Emacs version available from the App Store.

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1. Re:Emacs by Nemyst · 2012-09-02 08:34 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  How am I supposed to type C-x M-c M-butterfly on an iPad keyboard?
Re: bluetooth keyboard by ThePeices · 2012-09-02 08:56 · Score: 4, Funny

Do "full blooded software development" and "PHP" belong in the same sentence?
Why yes, yes it does.
"Programming in PHP is not full blooded software development"
Whether that sentence is factually correct is a matter for discussion though.
Re: bluetooth keyboard by Hazel+Bergeron · 2012-09-02 09:06 · Score: 5, Funny

"Programming in PHP is not full blooded software development"
Whether that sentence is factually correct is not a matter for discussion though.
FTFY.
Re: bluetooth keyboard by Glock27 · 2012-09-02 11:35 · Score: 5, Funny

The iPad is irrelevant, soon to be eclipsed (no pun intended) by all things Android. Arguably, this has already happened.
Arguably, you are quite disconnected from reality. :-)

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Re:Not enough screen pixels by mug+funky · 2012-09-02 12:43 · Score: 2, Funny

HERP HERP iPeerrd is teh cerrl yerr merrst beeuy eerrt.
Re:Not enough screen pixels by robthebloke · 2012-09-02 21:33 · Score: 3, Funny

Hey, give the guy a break! You can't blame him for missing a few words here and there.... it's damned difficult to read slashdot in safari on the small screen of the iPad!