Comment by ntr--
4 years ago
Your phone likely has an order of magnitude more computational power than the machines that were used to code and build some of the programs you mentioned.
The fact that iOS/Android prevents you from installing gcc does not mean it is unable to do so.
You could use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard and output HDMI over the usb/lightning port and have a super portable dev machine if the OS was so inclined.
Hardware doesn’t make a device multi-purpose, the advertising does!
(See more in my response to your sibling comment)