Every time I pack for a trip, I think about the oldschool Mac pundits who can't imagine going away without a laptop; I think last time I took a MacBook of any kind away with me was WWDC13
Then, of course, people 'remind' me that iPad can't replace a laptop, and I roll my eyes
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there's very little that can't be done in Playgrounds. You have to really narrow down your definition of 'development' to 'building and running C/ObjC apps locally', as most languages are covered by IDEs in the App Store
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I’ll concede that you could certainly do a lot from iPad. There are entire professions that likely could be entirely iPad-based. But for me personally, iPad (as it exists today) doesn’t cut it. (Build, debug, C/C++/Obj-C/CUDA/shaders)
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as somebody who doesn't like reading/writing Swift very much, I really wish I could have the same Playgrounds app with ObjC & C
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I’ve done it before. VNC’d to my home Mac from my iPad and ran Xcode and simulator. Experience was marginally worse than actually having my laptop with me.
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Actually, I do usually keep an ssh client on my phone to do emergency server administration wherever I am.
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Developers are a pretty special case though. It’s like construction workers wondering how normal people live without pickup trucks. After all, how else will they haul 20 sheets of 4x8 plywood?
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I’m sure he could do coding on an iPad. Could he compile it? Probably not. But the work could be done. Then again, coding on a MacBook One would be terrible as well.
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