Another iPad IDE, for Haskell: Raskell

I think this is one of my best app purchases ever, based on how much fun I have with it. Great to be able to read a Haskell book on my iPad and flip back and forth the Raskell to try code snippets as I read.

Pythonista is another great app purchase if you want to be able to write Python code natively on an iPad.

I’ve looked at the first two of those and I found them still too awkward due to being very text-typing heavy. Similar to play.js so I guess it mightn’t work well for me. I do have a keyboard and get by, but it’s uncomfortable for anything but shortish bursts and while I can of course use a normal keyboard, when I have one available I typically also have a laptop or desktop available so it’s easier to just use those. Like I said, I really dream of something more touch-friendly like an iPad-max/msp type language.

Still, I’ll try the ones you linked again and see. Maybe I got it wrong.

Thanks, I'll check it out. All of the web-based ones I've tried so far weren't very touchscreen friendly, sadly. Many simply don't respond to touch events, or the nodes were too small for my fingers.

The issue I have is that I don't want to carry a full sized keyboard around with me and when I'm somewhere where I have one (ie at home or in the office) I also have a laptop or desktop available with much better development tools, so just use those. iPad development would be for when I'm away from these.

I do have a case keyboard and its fine for basic use (emails, HN comments, short documents, chat messages) but I've never been happy typing a lot on it and I've never been happy programming on it (I've tried various IDE's, web based tools, SSHing into a server etc and I always got frustrated).