This looks really interesting. I'm excited to see someone is working to bring GitHub to iOS.
Looking at the screenshots, it looks like it could use some UI polish (http://worqshop.com/). For now, this will keep me from dropping $5 on this. My primary use case would be writing text (not code), and for that I value the great UI/UX of iA Writer over being able to save directly to GitHub.
I'd be curious to hear what other common use cases there are for this. In addition to writing text (Jekyll-powered blog), I might use this to make quick fixes on the go or review issues/pull requests.
It seems like actually writing significant amounts of code on the iPad is probably not a common use case. I refuse to believe this is productive compared to using a real computer with multitasking, Vim/emacs/Sublime Text, etc.
Anyway, if this were my app I'd focus on making the experience great for doing issues/pull requests and typing text (in comments on the aforementioned or in files). I wouldn't focus on actually writing code. But it's clearly not my app :)
In any case, great work -- I'm looking forward to seeing this app progress.
Very useful though when doing the 90% of code work that isn't composing new stuff from scratch. A real gift for people doing lots of code review. As you say great support for issues would go a long way toward that.
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This looks really interesting. I'm excited to see someone is working to bring GitHub to iOS.
Looking at the screenshots, it looks like it could use some UI polish (http://worqshop.com/). For now, this will keep me from dropping $5 on this. My primary use case would be writing text (not code), and for that I value the great UI/UX of iA Writer over being able to save directly to GitHub.
I'd be curious to hear what other common use cases there are for this. In addition to writing text (Jekyll-powered blog), I might use this to make quick fixes on the go or review issues/pull requests.
It seems like actually writing significant amounts of code on the iPad is probably not a common use case. I refuse to believe this is productive compared to using a real computer with multitasking, Vim/emacs/Sublime Text, etc.
Anyway, if this were my app I'd focus on making the experience great for doing issues/pull requests and typing text (in comments on the aforementioned or in files). I wouldn't focus on actually writing code. But it's clearly not my app :)
In any case, great work -- I'm looking forward to seeing this app progress.
Very useful though when doing the 90% of code work that isn't composing new stuff from scratch. A real gift for people doing lots of code review. As you say great support for issues would go a long way toward that.