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Laptop for development

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    #62
    markpb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭markpb


    [-0-] wrote: »
    There's a version of Eclipse for the iPad so you can pretty much develop whatever you like.

    I'm fairly sure that's not true. IIRC Apples rules prohibit any dynamic code execution on iOS so the code would need to be compiled and executed somewhere else and the output sent back to you.


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    #63
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,558 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    markpb wrote: »
    I'm fairly sure that's not true. IIRC Apples rules prohibit any dynamic code execution on iOS so the code would need to be compiled and executed somewhere else and the output sent back to you.
    once you jailbreak you can run pretty much anything on iPad, why you'd want to is a whole other problem.


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    #64
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    I use GLSL Studio on the iPad a bit to try out shader stuff and even that's awkward, let alone going beyond that and writing full blown programmes.


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    #65
    Procasinator
    Registered Users Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    I've heard of people using their iPad for development, but this was with a keyboard attachment and by using vim or similar over ssh.

    If you can rely on always having an internet connection, this kind of set-up would have it's advantages - being able to resume development on any device being a nice one. Having cheap and portable devices another. And hell, if thin clients for gaming is becoming a possibility (latency might always be an issue though), maybe thin clients are a bit more attractive than they were previously.


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