

There is some wiggle room around running your code directly on the iPad if you are a Python developer. You Probably Can’t Run Your Code on iOS Unless It’s Python If you would rather edit natively on the iPad and construct a system of pulleys that heft your code up to a cloud server, perhaps with a continuous integration system like GitLab’s, that is also possible.

But you don’t necessarily have to connect directly to the server to do everything. There are great SSH apps available, like Blink. First, if you concede that the iPad Pro is a potential thin client that pairs with a server, then you have options. Shortcuts is probably useful to someone, but I don’t use it much and it’s too limited for me to call it programming! Editing in Native iOS Text Editors You can use Shortcuts to string together a series of actions you might normally take, like turning on Do Not Disturb, playing a specific album (I recommend Brute Force by The Algorithm), and opening an SSH client app or a text editor. This is the rebranded Apple version of Workflow, a popular app that did more or less the same thing. The closest to programmability that exists as a native function of iOS is the Shortcuts app, which can automate small tasks and connect apps together. Playgrounds is not a general-purpose programming environment it’s geared toward kids learning to code. You can safely ignore Swift Playgrounds, unless your goal is to learn Swift.
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That is, you won’t find a secret door leading to a UNIX shell where you can install homebrew and a C compiler. The iPad still lacks the ability to do any native programming.
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I also explored how to use browser dev tools on iPadOS using the Inspect app in a recent post. Update: if you code on an iPad, check out my detailed look at ways to synchronize the iOS clipboard with a remote machine over SSH. In 2017 I asked, “Can You Write Code on an iPad?” In 2019 the answer is basically the same: not really.
