Ask HN: What is a good phone for to write code on? I find myself away from desktop/table for fairly long hours (Example, at the playgorund with kids, standing on subway etc). I have to write (office) code while at such places. Is there a good phone you would recommend which makes it easy to write and compile code? (Java + Front end stuff) |
Java is even worse than some of the other options because of the syntactic noise: too many special characters are required in too many places.
At best you could do some limited code generation if you used some GUI-oriented block mechanism (e.g., Blockly that outputs Java code), but phone displays are small even for that limited form of interaction.
the samsung galaxy note 8 plugged into the hp elite x3 lapdock is a great candidate. doing this gives you a larger screen, keyboard, and trackpad.