Do people seriously code on their phone without any keyboards? Are IDEs in demand for phones?
(It is not intended to be an insult of any sort. It is a serious question. I do not know anyone who does this and I cannot imagine myself being productive at all. I want to compare WPMs on a keyboard vs. on a phone as well.)
I could be wrong, but I recall in many developing countries phones there are many teenagers who code on their phone because laptops (even tablets) are prohibitively costly.
They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap keyboards, which is technically possible but I don't know if they're doing that.
A friend of mine from a SEA country learned/did all of his coding on a 10-inch Android tablet using the touch-screen keyboard since age 11 until his parents bought him a proper laptop as a gift for going to college.
> I could be wrong, but I recall in many developing countries phones there are many teenagers who code on their phone because laptops (even tablets) are prohibitively costly.
Yes, I see that a lot here in the far south of Morocco.
> They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap keyboards, which is technically possible but I don't know if they're doing that.
On good modern tablets you can nicely use the pen, and is almost as I used to do offline programming on paper netbooks, with the difference, now I can actually execute them, instead of coming home and type everything into the PC.
Will it run on the Quest headset? It’d be nice to develop rust extensions for Godot in a real IDE. Price seems fair to me too. Will there be a means to test the software first?
Damn, I don't have much to say but good work kid. That's an insane amount of work on your own tooling, some of the most satisfying stuff I generally work on.
Do people seriously code on their phone without any keyboards? Are IDEs in demand for phones?
(It is not intended to be an insult of any sort. It is a serious question. I do not know anyone who does this and I cannot imagine myself being productive at all. I want to compare WPMs on a keyboard vs. on a phone as well.)
I could be wrong, but I recall in many developing countries phones there are many teenagers who code on their phone because laptops (even tablets) are prohibitively costly.
They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap keyboards, which is technically possible but I don't know if they're doing that.
A friend of mine from a SEA country learned/did all of his coding on a 10-inch Android tablet using the touch-screen keyboard since age 11 until his parents bought him a proper laptop as a gift for going to college.
Edit: for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286044, there are other cases that I've definitely seen on GitHub but I can't find them at this moment.
> I could be wrong, but I recall in many developing countries phones there are many teenagers who code on their phone because laptops (even tablets) are prohibitively costly.
Yes, I see that a lot here in the far south of Morocco.
> They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap keyboards, which is technically possible but I don't know if they're doing that.
They do. Adapters are about $2.
> They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap keyboards, which is technically possible
Not just possible, but quite easy. You just plug it in (or connect it via bluetooth) same as with a computer.
Hmm, I see. Of course if I had no choice like those people, I would rather pick "coding uncomfortably on a phone" over "not coding at all".
On good modern tablets you can nicely use the pen, and is almost as I used to do offline programming on paper netbooks, with the difference, now I can actually execute them, instead of coming home and type everything into the PC.
Interesting. I cannot imagine myself being any productive. I typically just write down my thoughts and ideas on my phone when I am not nearby my PC.
I usually have fun on the go between C# Shell, Pydroid 3 and ShaderBox.
This could fit in well with the Pixel's upcoming desktop mode or Samsung DeX. Hopefully Google keeps developing desktop mode to make it more usable.
Impressive work for a 17 years old guy, well done!
The backstory is fricking amazing! It really shows how much pure will just allows a person to do stuff.
Amazing. I'm also a sole mobile code with an external bluetooth keyboard. Termux, tmux and vim.
But I'm homeless It's painful...
Will it run on the Quest headset? It’d be nice to develop rust extensions for Godot in a real IDE. Price seems fair to me too. Will there be a means to test the software first?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammedkh...
is it offline?
I remember for a while the only rust-writing app on play market simply called home to compile your stuff there
Damn, I don't have much to say but good work kid. That's an insane amount of work on your own tooling, some of the most satisfying stuff I generally work on.