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I just don't understand why all this work didn't go into making an iOS text editor. Why did they choose Mac OS? It's the most saturated platform when it comes to editors.

Meanwhile, the only thing that keeps me from using my iPad Pro full-time is the lack of a serious text editor and terminal.

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Probably because for most of the use cases, you couldn’t actually do anything with the code you write without involving another machine. It’s not like you can spin up a node server.

I too would like to use my iPad Pro for work stuff, but I would say the thing standing in my way is Apple.

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