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| ▲ | robertfw 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| there are going to be quite a lot of places where getting a laptop is a considerable expense |
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| ▲ | epolanski 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Why does it have to be a laptop, and why does it need to be new? There aren't that many places in 2025 where getting a phone with internet is significantly cheaper than getting some scrappy laptop or desktop. | | |
| ▲ | basisword 2 days ago | parent [-] | | >> There aren't that many places in 2025 where getting a phone with internet is significantly cheaper than getting some scrappy laptop or desktop. No, but it's not a choice between a phone and a laptop. You NEED a phone. So you use what you've got. I've done work helping developers in less developed countries and you frequently find they're sending screenshots of code they've written on phones. | | |
| ▲ | herewulf a day ago | parent [-] | | I think I'll take any LLM slop code over the written-on-phone-by-"developers" slop code. |
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| ▲ | guywithahat 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I assume he means people are too poor to have multiple devices, and if you only have one it's probably a phone. That said I'm dubious anyone who only has a phone is doing meaningful coding |
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| ▲ | fataleszumittag 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | There is this guy: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecom.... I haven‘t used his plugin, but it seems quite popular (+3k stars). I guess ergonomics don‘t matter so much yet when you are young.. | | |
| ▲ | guywithahat 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Huh, makes you wonder if it's actually doing it on his phone or if he has a keyboard and maybe dock and monitor he attaches it to. I suppose my original comment was too broad, there was a point not too long ago when everyone wanted to replace their laptop with their phone. Samsung even let you dual boot linux from your phone with DeX | | |
| ▲ | herewulf a day ago | parent | next [-] | | There's always an edge case. Speaking of which, here's someone who would really benefit from a hard column width limit and limited nesting that modern programmers (particularly ones using various IDEs) so carelessly violate these days. | |
| ▲ | greggh 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Following that story as it happened, it was all on the phone with the phone keyboard and he somehow made multiple good Neovim plugins including that very popular one (which I use in multiple configs). | | |
| ▲ | 4k93n2 2 days ago | parent [-] | | neovim is probably the only sane way you could code like this on a small screen. everything works pretty much the same way it does on a desktop terminal, the only thing you have to get used to is having so many lines wrapped, and not having quick access to some characters like $ or ^, but they can just be added to the toolbar in termux |
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| ▲ | cyberrock 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The initial version of Copyparty seems to have been written on a phone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46056869 |
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| ▲ | gmueckl 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There are countries where the market for PCs and laptops is really tiny and the stores sell them at markups compared to US/European prices. Many of these countries are low wage countries, too, so these markups have a big impact on affordability. |
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| ▲ | cyberrock 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Having the means doesn't mean the would-be programmer is in charge of the purse. I got my start coding at the local library because my parents wouldn't get me my own computer until I was in high school. |
