"Why would you buy a PC anymore?" - Tim Cook on the iPad Pro launch.
Don't be surprised if XCode for iPad Pro is a thing soon. It's becoming clear he sees iPads as the future of computing, it's all he uses personally and developing it's own apps is one of the last things it actually can't do.
iPad Pro using MOSH into a Linux box running tmux and vim. A great development environment for me - 11 hour battery life, built in LTE connection, huge screen that I can layout how I want, easy to carry around with me and I can use it for drawing and sketching UI concepts for my clients before I start on any work.
I don't use it 100% of the time (I also have a desktop machine) but it works extremely well and offers me things that a laptop cannot.
EDIT: It also doesn't have an Escape key - but I use Ctrl-C in VIM as I don't have to move from the home position then
> People aren't going to do development on a tablet or a smartphone anytime soon.
My set up proves you wrong: Nexus 7, bluetooth keyboard, a Debian chroot with git, vim, python and apt. I take that with me to sketchy places instead of my laptop. I think a 10-inch tablet could be more comfortable to read, but I love the Full-HD screen and pocketability of the 2nd-gen N7. I find it amazing that 3 years later and no other Android tablet has a screen resolution that's comparable.
It is, for learning basic Swift. For developing you want to use a setup that allows you to handle thousands if not hundreds of thousands of lines of code. A single-process touch interface isn't that, I think.
