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Comment by mohsen1

6 days ago

iPad update is going to encourage a new series of folks trying to use iPads for general programming. I'm curious how it goes this time around. I'm cautiously optimistic

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msgodel  6 days ago

Isn't it still impossible to run any dev tools on the iPad?

  • robterrell  6 days ago

    IIRC Swift Playgrounds goes pretty deep -- a full LLVM compiler for Swift and you can use any platform API -- but you can't build something for distribution. The limitations are all at the Apple policy level.

  • zapzupnz  6 days ago

    Not quite. As another user mentioned, there's Swift Playgrounds which is complete enough that you can even upload apps made in it to the App Store. Aside from that, there are also IDEs like Pythonista for creating Python-based apps and others for Lua, JavaScript, etc. many of which come with their own frameworks for making native iOS/iPadOS interfaces.

  • mohsen1  6 days ago

    I can assume that they are going to bring the Container stuff to iPad at some point. That would unlock so many things...