You DO know people that dev on mobile??? Is it their primary platform or just an acceptable downgrade during in transit or "out of office". What sort of programs do they use? Do they remote into tastier machines to run beefier programs or are there a range of IDEs for mobile?

I am most intrigued.

As far as I can tell, their preferred device is an iPhone 7 that they use to SSH into other machines that they run vim on, which they have told me that they do not think of as a "downgrade" from their main machine, a 12" MacBook (which presumably does the same thing).

They're kind of strange, to be honest.

I've never quite understood the whole "developing on my phone/tablet" thing. It's like calling my keyboard/mouse a "development machine". I'll be impressed when I see someone actually switching to their phones for development: compiling, testing and running all on the device itself.

I'm sure we'll start to get some. Surely some members of the phone generation are more devastatingly dexterous on a phone than a keyboard.

Perhaps the typical university path makes it less common? I'd imagine the autodidact path might be more likely for a new breed should the new breed even exist.

That's very interesting. Thanks for the data <3.