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hobs
Damn, I don't have much to say but good work kid. That's an insane amount of work on your own tooling, some of the most satisfying stuff I generally work on.
iberator
Amazing. I'm also a sole mobile code with an external bluetooth keyboard. Termux, tmux and vim.

But I'm homeless It's painful...

johnisgood
Do people seriously code on their phone without any keyboards? Are IDEs in demand for phones?

(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.)

anonzzzies
I am coding on an android tablet with a keyboard, so I hope more ides get released. Until I can run Linux on my tablets of choice, not much else can be done.
stefanka
Will it run on the Quest headset? It’d be nice to develop rust extensions for Godot in a real IDE. Price seems fair to me too. Will there be a means to test the software first?
NooneAtAll3
is it offline?

I remember for a while the only rust-writing app on play market simply called home to compile your stuff there

MohammedKHC
Yes! Although if you want to build/run a project with dependencies you would need to download the dependencies first. (As expected.)
fitblipper
This could fit in well with the Pixel's upcoming desktop mode or Samsung DeX. Hopefully Google keeps developing desktop mode to make it more usable.
tommica
The backstory is fricking amazing! It really shows how much pure will just allows a person to do stuff.
AbuAssar
Impressive work for a 17 years old guy, well done!
skeptrune
There is an untapped market for phone-oriented IDEs. It's a super convenient way to code when you're out of the office or on the go.
wasabinator
This is brilliant. I happily bought it due to how nice and well thought out this is as well as the fascinating write up. I actually see a lot of legitimate situations for when an idea pops in my head and I want to quickly try it out when I only have my phone on me. I tried the egui sample and get a link error but will look more closely at why. One initial thought i would have is to make the swipe down to dismiss terminal gesture less aggressive as one often needs to scroll back the build output a fair bit.
ZhiqiangWang
I feel people gonna cry “please stop rusting things”
MohammedKHC
I feel like it's going to be "Stop running everything on phones." :) Jokes-aside you should not use a single programming language for everything. Every language have pros and cons. And another reason that made be choose rust is the fact that there was no IDEs for rust in Android at all. (There were some IDEs for python, cpp, [Although not with all the features that Rustroid supports :) ])