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On Android, I love Termux: https://termux.com/

It turns my Android devices into a powerful and versatile programming environment.

ISH looks great. If I was still using any iOS devices, I would give it a try.

I really wish iOS / iPadOS supported better software development environments and tools like ISH. Hopefully ISH does not get pulled by Apple App Store regulators.

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Termux is much, much better than iSH. iSH is not bad, it's just that it doesn't run any code natively, everything runs through a software emulation layer (I believe x86 to the Apple Axxx processors). So it's slow. Whereas Termux is native and very snappy. I tried running emacs on my iPad Pro (2017) and gave up because it was too slow. On Termux emacs is great, even on a midrange phone from several years ago (Moto G5 Plus).

I got Visual Studio Code running "natively" on Android under Termux using code-server:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SamsungDex/comments/f6oy5y/quest_fo...

It actually makes my Tab S6 somewhat useful for development.

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