(It is not intended to be an insult of any sort. It is a serious question. I do not know anyone who does this and I cannot imagine myself being productive at all. I want to compare WPMs on a keyboard vs. on a phone as well.)
They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap keyboards, which is technically possible but I don't know if they're doing that.
A friend of mine from a SEA country learned/did all of his coding on a 10-inch Android tablet using the touch-screen keyboard since age 11 until his parents bought him a proper laptop as a gift for going to college.
Edit: for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286044, there are other cases that I've definitely seen on GitHub but I can't find them at this moment.
Yes, I see that a lot here in the far south of Morocco.
> They might be wiring their phones up to some cheap keyboards, which is technically possible but I don't know if they're doing that.
They do. Adapters are about $2.
On the other hand one of my friends used to code on the phone, and he was using kivy to do some raytracing cool thing in 9th grade. Definitely something that I wouldn't be able to do right now even too, and i was the only person excited about it as much. I celebrated the nerd culture on ms teams in our school (back when there was covid)
Now he has a laptop too and I introduced him to hyprland though he picked fedora and he riced it being inspired by me.
Its like, I don't think that he's that much into coding anymore, like the exam for which we are both learning idk, I am still really really interested about coding yet he seems to focus on defense and wants to be someone in defense technologies for the nation.
We literally used to joke how our youtube feeds are of the same people and yet I think that we are very two different people right now of sorts and now recently I was coding something on my phone with micro in alpine in userland application and wanted to share him the python code and I wanted to have something like a for i,n in range in a langauge like golang and yes I could do a while loop but I was just wondering if it was possible or not and I asked him and he asked if I knew coding or not :sob:, ofc I didn't know there was something like enumerate() function, noone in programming just spawns out of that information and I thought he would be more kinder to me given we've been friends for so long and he definitely made me a bit insecure and just said that I am blowing things up when I said that dude I just wanted to show ya something I was working on for fun, not get roasted.
We were really close before hand but that instance just made me feel like :/ I want to be appreciated too and sometimes I don't like the dark jokes or whatever, I like if someone can be as kind as I was to them, I just its not even karma but human decency to know sometimes. I usually try to help others and just expected it from someone I deeply trusted that had done some massive communication blunders and he just said that he won't change for me and I need to grow up... Yes its silly but he just said in the most condescending way but still I forgive him because maybe he was having a bad day and we are still friends but that's when i also realized that I need better friends too of sorts yknow.
Not just possible, but quite easy. You just plug it in (or connect it via bluetooth) same as with a computer.
I've also met in programming discords various younger developers who write code from the only computing device they have access to: their phones.
It lets me work on my hobbies while I commute, travel, or am otherwise idle and is a nice alternative to scrolling social media or consuming content.
With git, I can just sync my changes and work from a PC when I can/want to.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1hay1z3/develo...
Meanwhile, i struggle to be efficient on my 13 inch screen
I never tried programming on it but I can imagine a world where the only computer i own fits in my pocket.
I do so without as well, but in that case I'm usually relying heavily on a cli ai agent.
Whether it is through the phone or PC, it does not matter much[1], just give me the keyboard! :D
[1] Actually it does matter for some things, like compilation time or performance of the program which I would do on a real computer, which I could do through SSH-ing on my phone to a PC.
WPM is not the bottleneck in coding, especially now in the age where AI agents now do the coding for you.
On a smartphone its not bad there is one old editor with sftp/ftp support in the android store.
But I'm homeless It's painful...
I remember for a while the only rust-writing app on play market simply called home to compile your stuff there
Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of sticking to a single language. Every language has it's own use cases.
