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Will Developers Finally Start Coding On the iPad?

Posted by samzenpus on 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?"

6 of 463 comments (clear)

  1. Comprehensive List of Computing Advantages in iPad by __aaltlg1547 · · Score: 5, Funny

    * It fits in my purse.

  2. Re:Is it just me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, it is just you who wants to shoot yourself.
    Rational people merely want to shoot the authors of such stories.

  3. Re:Seriously? by Forty+Two+Tenfold · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  4. Emacs by gentryx · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  5. Re: bluetooth keyboard by Hazel+Bergeron · · 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.

  6. Re: bluetooth keyboard by Glock27 · · 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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