You have to be the least informed hacker in the world if you bought an thinking you could do that.

There are plenty of alternatives to the iPhone if you want to compile on Linux.

I have the vision of hanging at the coffee shop, jamming to headphones, pop open the iPad, open the iCloud synced IntelliJ project I was working on my MacBook Pro in the morning. To those who would say, but that's not what an iPad is for - consider this thought: The iPad is a pretty good expression device. You can draw with the pencil in Good Notes. You can paint with your fingers in Procreate. You can make music with Garage Band. With the iPad keyboard, and Obsidian.app, it's a serious writing tool. So with all of these ways to express my passion, what I'd love to do is use the iPad to express my passion to code. Using my kindergarten brain, It looks like a computer that a person could use to code.

Apple seems to be investing in iPad software development capabilities - Swift Playground app. This is exciting - perhaps it will be the "iMovie" of Xcode...

An aside: When someone finally comes up with an eInk laptop, we developers in Austin can chill at patio bars and enjoy the sun.