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Yeah, there are plenty of blog posts out there telling people how some developer switched to developing on his iPad or installed vim or a SSH client. Personally, I do a lot of work on my Touchpad with a bluetooth keyboard. It's portable, effective (if not 100% efficient), and I don't look like a tool dragging my laptop around places (no honey, I'm just bringing the tablet!).

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> Yeah, there are plenty of blog posts out there telling people how some developer switched to developing on his iPad or installed vim or a SSH client

There are a few, and we could probably enumerate them all right here. The reason they stand out is that almost no one does that, and that it's not an effective development environment for most people.

Personally, I'd sooner shift careers to road mending than try to program on an iPad.

> Personally, I'd sooner shift careers to road mending than try to program on an iPad.

And, personally, I'd love to be able to run Xcode on an iPad. With a Bluetooth keyboard it would be practically identical to the laptop I use now, but better for my back and wrists.

How is using vim on an iPad any different than using vim on a laptop/desktop? Connect a Bluetooth keyboard and you're doing exactly the same thing. The only difference is a smaller screen size, but vim doesn't really care.

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