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.