What does HackerNews think of ish?

Not making any statement regarding the mentioned workflow issues (I mostly agree with them), I really like iSH [1] for this sort thing.

It’s a “good enough” solution for the “I just quickly need to do something in a terminal” problems.

And because it’s an x86 Alpine Linux it can even run simple binaries if needed.

But for me it still couldn’t replace a dedicated laptop for proper tasks.

[1]: https://github.com/ish-app/ish

Would `ish` work? https://github.com/ish-app/ish

Yeah, I did a quick check in LLVM at some point to see what it does (query I relied on: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/search?q=getPredictable...) and all the results seemed to be exclusively code motion or deciding how to lower a branch. Similarly cold path outlining seemed to just want to split the function in a fairly simple manner rather than doing anything beyond that. Perhaps I missed something, but I think the current hints are just to help the branch predictor or instruction cache rather than significantly alter codegen.

Unfortunately, I don't have much to share at the moment besides my thoughts; I've done a few small tests but haven't been able to really do a full implementation yet. The primary consumer of this work would be iSH (https://github.com/ish-app/ish), which has a need for a fast interpreter, so you can at least take a look at the current implementation to see what we'd like to replace. The nature of the project means that most of my time has been tied up in things like making sure that keyboard avoidance is set up correctly and that users can customize the background color of their terminal :/

With that said, I'd be happy to chat more if you'd like–feel free to send me an email or whatever. Not sure I can say I'm at the state of the art yet, but perhaps we can get there :)

Check out ish.app also!

https://ish.app/

https://github.com/ish-app/ish

iSH[1,2] is an example of such a tool. It emulates an x86 Linux userspace on top of iOS.

[1] https://ish.app/ [2] https://github.com/ish-app/ish

"A project to get a Linux shell running on iOS, using usermode x86 emulation and syscall translation." https://github.com/ish-app/ish/

So theoretically it could be like an isolated computer game and have no access to anything from the underlying iOS environment. (Maybe it does let you access iOS's filesystem—it's not clear to me at a first glance.) I have the jaded feeling that this has to do with how it got approved.

https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/Mounting-other-file-prov... says: "Additionally, if jailbroken or using the psychic paper exploit (not available through TestFlight nor will we help you do it), you can also mount using real, absolute paths. To do so run "mount -t real ", where is the absolute path from the root of iOS and is the location in iSH to mount the file." Which suggests that you can only touch the underlying iOS if you've done an exploit.

This is accurate, but is not the whole story. I’m running a terminal on iOS right now to ssh into my Linux server.[1] There are terminal emulators on Android too.

I wish there were more GUI apps centered around hybrid cloud/shell use cases. I would like to be able to make GUI widgets to do things in a ssh session on my server. I’m not sure how important it would be to run on the device; it could be a webapp I run on the server itself to trigger scripts. It’s a UI/UX that centers around touchscreen input, is reconfigurable, and can perform arbitrary commands or events server-side, which I find lacking. Anyone know of tools that scratch this itch?

[1] https://github.com/ish-app/ish