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I wonder if it's usable from an iPad. I haven't tried an online ide before, but if it works well it could be a great mobile development tool.

It would be awesome if this could be setup as a backend for vim as well. Given how well Coc.vim integrates with VSCode tooling, I'm cautiously optimistic.

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That's correct it's usable from an iPad during the beta. There are a few known issues but we're planning on addressing those so that we can support this workflow (I work as the product lead on Codespaces).

Wow, great to hear!

Does it work with the software keyboard? I seem to recall Monaco not really supporting mobile.

I haven't specifically tried it, but I think it would be challenging given how much screen real estate the keyboard takes.

Super excited to hear this, I had the exact same question reading the page. Any chance you'd be willing to slip us a peak on when we could reasonably (even a Qx ballpark) on when Beta begins?

The beta signup list is available today https://github.com/features/codespaces and we'll add people in the order they sign up.

Seems you are about to finally turn the iPad into a good development device :)

My kingdom for native VSCode on iPad. It’d be soooo much better than a Safari version.

I've been self-hosting VS Code Server ( https://github.com/cdr/code-server ) and using it from Chrome on my iPad with a keyboard and mouse when I'm on the road..

If this is the same or similar approach, then it should work just fine.

If the pricing for Codespaces is reasonable, I'm going to move to that for sure. It's been kind of a hassle to keep my self-hosted setup running properly.

Can you share what issues you've had?

Been looking at this.

This tweet from GitHub's lead designer would suggest so!

https://twitter.com/notdetails/status/1258070699165585410

... also this tweet from another GitHub product designer

https://twitter.com/mschoening/status/1258069269260038144

Hey, the first tweet is mine. Codespaces work pretty great on an iPad. We're going to be making improvements to the experience here as we get to GA but we know it's a scenario everyone is really excited about.

Is the screenshot of Codedpaces from your iPad or macOS? Because that looks a lot like safari on macOS.

https://mobile.twitter.com/notdetails/status/125807069916558...

It's a mockup in macOS safari, but I'll tweet a video of it running on my iPad at some point

What do you mean by "a backend for vim"? I use vim almost exclusively for coding but I'm not really sure what you mean here.

Backend may have been the wrong word, but they mention being able to connect to your codespace from VSCode running on your computer. It would be cool if you could connect to your codespace from vim running on your computer in the same way.

Vim can connect to anything that runs sshd.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/202918/how-do-i-rem...

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