I do, but it's useful mostly with the addition of shell utilities from Nicolas Holzschuch's fork [https://github.com/holzschu/iVim]. At the moment, this still requires sideloading (with a paid Apple Dev account). I mostly use it for LaTeX editing; the whole setup is outlined here: https://michaelgoerz.net/notes/editing-latex-on-the-ipad-wit...

> In principle, this works with a free developer account. However, the resulting installation of iVim on your iPad will only run for seven days. For this to be actually useful, you will have to pay the 100 dollar yearly membership fee.

Thank you for posting this. I often get the "grass is greener" feeling and an urge to check out swift but this tells me I shouldn't bother. Sigh.

I don't understand this attitude.

I can think of a litany of things in the past 12 months I've spend $100 or more on that I probably shouldn't have.

In principle, yes, but for some reason it really bothered me to have to give Apple $100 just to install some open source software on my iPad. I’d much rather have given that money to Nicolas who spent immeasurable effort trying to work around Apples silly restrictions to get a working shell environment onto iOS. Apple are the last people that deserve to get the money for this! It’s the moral issue, not whether spending $100 is a financial burden.

Just because you are spening less strictly doesn't mean everyone does, and in turn it doesn't weaken their argument.

I believe sideloading is now free (as you indicate, this was not always so), but must be repeated each week:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2016/03/27/how-to-c...

Not really. Apps that are signed with a free account expire after 7 days, which makes the free side loading pretty much useless. With a paid account, they work indefinitely.

Do they work after the 1st year expires?

Maybe not, I haven't tried that yet. But yeah "indefinitely" was probably not the right word. It might very well depend on some certificate with some expiration date. But it's very manageable.