

The idea that I could use iOS for work seemed laughable, but I figured that the iPad could stand in for the device I would one day buy. However, my two-year-old iPad Air 2 was about the right size and weight. Without going into too much detail, let’s say that I became obsessed with creating an ultralight, thin-client computing environment, and few computers on the market seemed to fit my requirements. The Experiment: an iPad Air 2 My iPad Air 2 and Logitech keyboard You can read it at My Ideal Software Development Environment. Why did I head down this ludicrous path? That’s a long story. I also continued my quest in Can you Write Code on a Chromebook? and Using Windows 10 and the Surface Book 2 for Web Development. In 2019 I reevaluated coding on iOS with Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019.

This is a story about how I experimented with using an iPad Air 2 to write code, what worked and what didn’t, and where I ended up.

The merit in all things consists in the difficulty.
