<story><title>Professional C# and F# IDE for the iPad</title><url>http://praeclarum.org/post/147003028753/continuous-c-and-f-ide-for-the-ipad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moonshinefe</author><text>Do many people use tablets for development? If someone uses them for development I&amp;#x27;d be interested in hearing how well that&amp;#x27;s worked out.&lt;p&gt;I think I might just be getting old, but it sounds like a terrible experience trying to code something on a touch screen (and non-desktop OS). But I&amp;#x27;d imagine younger folks are very fast at typing on said touch screens these days, so maybe that mitigates some of it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nullabillity</author><text>As a reasonably &amp;quot;younger folk&amp;quot;, on-screen keyboards are still dreadful. You could attach a bluetooth keyboard or use an OTG cable (or use a USB-C keyboard if you can manage to find any :P), but at that point you&amp;#x27;re just back to having a really awful laptop.&lt;p&gt;The Transformers were an interesting concept that could have made it viable, it&amp;#x27;s too bad that they switched to Windows...</text></comment>
<story><title>Professional C# and F# IDE for the iPad</title><url>http://praeclarum.org/post/147003028753/continuous-c-and-f-ide-for-the-ipad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moonshinefe</author><text>Do many people use tablets for development? If someone uses them for development I&amp;#x27;d be interested in hearing how well that&amp;#x27;s worked out.&lt;p&gt;I think I might just be getting old, but it sounds like a terrible experience trying to code something on a touch screen (and non-desktop OS). But I&amp;#x27;d imagine younger folks are very fast at typing on said touch screens these days, so maybe that mitigates some of it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hacker_9</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re right the experience isn&amp;#x27;t great, that doesn&amp;#x27;t stop people trying though. There are many mobile IDEs too that try all sorts of different layouts, but they are all an exercise in frustration at the end of the day. I think really it can never work, but it&amp;#x27;s interesting to see things like this, if only to verify the problem.</text></comment>