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charcircuityesterday at 10:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

You could get that same educational value from programming things on a smartphone.


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prab97today at 1:49 AM

Current smartphones are highly optimized for content consumption a.k.a doom scrolling. Nothing serious exists for programming. On top of that, a touch keyboard and hard to reach special characters make programming on a modern smartphone a big chore. I miss the old days of smartphones that had a hardware keyboard with tactile feedback. I used to code up and maintain a PHP based dynamic website circa 2007 with a Sony Ericsson K770i and upload through a J2ME based FTP client that also had the text editor in it. If I remember it correctly it was called MobyExplorer

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kstrauseryesterday at 11:29 PM

What's your favorite free programming environment for commonly used smartphones?

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