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After a few years of frustration with trying to make my iPad useful for coding, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 and keyboard case for about 200GBP. Install Termux from the Google Play store (no warranty voiding rooting required). `apt install clang` and off you go.

The iPad I had before this was undoubtedly prettier and had a better UI, but the cheapest iPad is twice this price and after years of buying apps, faffing with file sharing, and even porting one or two interpreters across to iOS I never managed what takes 10 minutes on Android.

What type of code do you write on iPad? Do you ssh into something to make it run?

PHP, html, JavaScript. Using FTP to push code directly from the app.

I ssh, and I run a vscode server, and jupyter notebooks from my iPad.

Let's me query sql, full programming, normal IDE for NetSuite stuff I need to work on. It's great

What apps do you use for coding?

Textastic