Visual Studio Code on iPad

Christian Kjær
4 min readMar 20, 2020

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With Apple increasing their focus¹ on making the iPad a viable device for work, it is time to revisit using my iPad as a workstation for programming.

I rely heavily on command-line tools and language-specific tools (rust-analyser, node, ghcide, etc.) for my day-to-day programming, and my current setup features:

  • Blink with mosh to a remote server.
  • Neovim and wemux on the remote server.
  • iSH to play around with very simple CLI needs…

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Christian Kjær

Founder of codetalk.io and blogging on codethoughts.io 👀 •• Rust/Serverless ❤️ Previously: Director of Eng at Famly 🌱 Built IoT platform at Factbird ☁️