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>>iBelie+(OP)
My primary concern with this is that different applications are inherently optimized for the platform on which they were originally designed. There are some applications that have a very dense UI because there's simply alot of functionality that the program handles (think of a video editor, an IDE, etc). Trying to slim down those applications to make them reactive so that they will scale onto a phone or tablet just seems silly, and I fear that in the name of making "everything work everywhere", we're going to compromise a bunch of apps that worked beautifully on one platform in favor of making them work adequately on several platforms.

I mean, if someone said, "I've successfully ported Vim to Android!", my first thought would be, "Why in god's name would I want to run vim on my phone?"*

* Ruling out, of course, someone plugging their phone into external KVM.

>>Admira+K7
>I mean, if someone said, "I've successfully ported Vim to Android!", my first thought would be, "Why in god's name would I want to run vim on my phone?"*

Vim is available on android through termux. I've used it to write a few things. I actually used it to wrote an app to access my city's transit api because I wasn't a fan of the available ones.

With the right keyboard installed it's actually not too bad. Best programming editor i've actually found available on android.

>>grawpr+SM
At that point why not pull out a laptop? Are you programming on a tablet?

>>nothal+JN
I'm also a termux user. My main use case is sshing into remote servers, I keep tmux sessions open and attach from my laptop or phone depending on what is most convenient/useful in the moment. I spend more time attached with my laptop than my phone, but sometimes I have an idea for something I want to do quickly without taking the time to boot up my laptop, or I don't have my laptop with me. It's not the ideal productivity tool, but it's hella convenient if you can train your fingers to dance around the soft keys. I have relatively big hands, and I manage to do it -- I've gotten noticably faster over the last couple years, but not on par with my laptop WPM obviously. I'm on a 5.5 inch screen, portrait format, with the full-qwerty Hacker's Keyboard app (source is on github).