With Apple increasing their focus1 on making the iPad a viable device for work, it is time to revisit using my iPad as a workstation for programming.
I rely heavily on command-line tools and language-specific tools (rust-analyser, node, ghcide, etc.) for my day-to-day programming, and my current setup features:
- Blink with mosh to a remote server.
- Neovim and wemux on the remote server.
- iSH to play around with very simple CLI needs locally on the iPad.
On my computer, I use Visual Studio Code, and it’s long been a wish to get that running somehow on my iPad. This is an attempt to make VS Code available on the iPad under the restrictions that we have to deal with.