The system software I’ll say again is severely crippled. What I am saying is that the software for these devices, iOS and Android, are not designed for developing. As a hardware device a tablet has potential to be very useful. Even some light editing on the server side for small incremental updates to code might be something you could do on the couch or in bed with your tablet. I’m a big fan of screen, bash, irssi, top and even use nano from time to time. I will literally point at you and have a hearty and genuine laugh at your expense.Īnd If I’m going to be spending significant time being mobile I’d rather take a UX31 or similar ultrabook with I’m not saying that server management isn’t something that can’t be done on a tablet (I even mention ssh). If I catch a developer writing code on a tablet I will publicly laugh. But a tablet is not a developer tool it is a consumer device. Sure Joe Blow developer down the street might add his own stripped down interpreter that might just work enough to write a cute script or two. And they just don’t understand that these tablets will always be marketed and designed exclusively for consumers. The fact is the system software for these devices are plain crippled.Īnyone that suggests that they want to code on their tablet is really being naive. You can’t run a LAMP stack or any interpreter that isn’t severely hacked and gutted. The growing trend is grandmas and grandpas and compute illiterate people who generally hate OS’s window managers.Įven if there was someone out there that designed a real nice keyboard that wasn’t a rubbery mess and was easy to type in, you would still need to develop off of your device either through ssh of ftp to even test your code. Yeah, I bought a really nice ICS tablet - for my mother. With growing transition to these kinds of devices, developers should not be shrugging them off. I already know what a great product it is. I am definitely willing to pay for Sublime Text 2 on the iPad. I am not impressed with the current text editing offerings in the app store, but the advantage for the ST2 team is that they have an established product out on desktop platforms that is already well known and obviously liked, and could easily pull-in customers at the same price point as other editors on the tablet app markets who don’t offer free lite (or paid/demo Win/Mac/Linux) versions, and for which their potential customers must make a purchase based on screen captures, reviews, and faith alone. I imagine apps in the Android marketplace are similarly priced. $9.99 seems reasonable when jumping across the PC/Tablet boundary, especially given that this is about average for advanced editors on iPad. I completely agree with the OP, and would go further to say that Sublime Text 2 on iPad and Android is a natural fit and could easily be the number 1 editor on tablets.
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