I really hate how Apple shaped a whole new ecosystem that made it specially hard to run open source and unixy stuff.

It feels like the Disney moment where a company thriving from an abundant shared resource turns around to poison the well to keep their lead.

I love my iPad but really wish that’s not the future waiting for us.

You can get some stuff running on an iPad using iSH [0], but compatibility is iffy and performance even moreso. At one point, I tried bringing a RPi4 along with me to act as a mobile dev server (it'd serve an instance of VSCode over ethernet via a USB-C/ethernet adapter on the iPad, and the iPad would share its Wifi connection to the RPi), but it was clunky to bring two devices with me. Nowadays, I use Blink Shell [1] as a mosh terminal to a remote dev server.

[0]: https://ish.app [1]: https://blink.sh

Vs code with terminal in codespaces via a browser is most impressive.

I still prefer local, but I was blown awat

You can also connect iPad to your Mac as a second display, and put terminal there :)

There is now a web version of vscode and you can ssh into your environment.