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Discussion on: Using Git on iOS (the free way)

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Corey Johnson

Oooh interesting, I hope this is a turning point for iOS. I remember I wanted to get an iPad Pro as a laptop replacement and was disappointed I couldn't do any substantial coding, maybe sometime in the future that'll be possible.

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Dan

Yeah I would say it’s not necessarily easy regardless. A few years back I got into Python on iPad. There’s an incredible app called Pythonista. Itwould certainly be fine for producing command line tools and etc and with the UI module for iOS it was trivial to build UI applications. Those could later be made into iOS apps with a Python kit (with Xcode on Mac).

I haven’t really experimented with other coding apps because they usually cost money. There are some people that use iPad exclusively and an app called Working Copy to deal with git and remote repos. It’s a paid app and I tried it before- but I found using git with that UI was hard (you could say I prefer command line git). So I had to try with iShell. I don’t know if I will use it or not though!