Thonny runs well on my Pinebook Pro, so in that case comparably wimpy ARM based Linux machines can be used for things like Python development even with an IDE.

It just depends on how heavy-duty what you're trying to do is. Scripting in general runs fine on my ARM SBCs. The real trouble is if you've got something that you need to recompile every time you make a change and you don't have a cache set up.

The tooling isn't particularly nice, but on Android it is clearly possible.

If I wanted to programm I could get a shell on a server for example.

Now touch screen keyboards are a different problem.

When I see truth being downvoted I try to upvote, hn would be a better place if people learned to upvote, the high karma downers are really toxic.

You need a keyboard and mouse to be productive, case closed!

Edit: see the toxic high karma downers even got to this one!