Most Beautiful – Prompt 2 Review

I am changing my original review after discovering that editing files containing emojis with vim completely breaks Prompt 2. This is very sad because I was planning on using emojis in our school lessons and now cannot without throwing out the iPad and using Macbook Airs instead. ==== original Prompt 2 is the only Menlo-font-supporting, anti-aliased, emoji/unicode, true xterm-256 supporting terminal in the entire app store. I tried them all (and paid for them). The top priority for a terminal is that it be supremely easy to look at for hours and hours and take seconds to login. Prompt nails this. As for ssh, this app does exactly the minimum needed for 99% of developers who have moved to the cloud. (Who the f*** is using Telnet these days, lol?) The time to move to iPad Pro development workflow has come, for most. Digital Ocean, among others, has replaced the local development workflow for many and more will follow. Prompt will be a key tool in the conversion as it is today. As a long time Macbook Pro and UNIX/Linux command line user and who uses and teaches VIM for everything (sorry Coda, until you have a vim mode I'm not interested—especially for Go and C development) I have particularly high standards and was ready to chuck this like all the rest. But no, instead, it was so good it has convinced me to recommend it as standard to all my students and to actually make the move to iPad Pros for our entire school replacing the Air (before Apple gets rid of them or replaces them all with their dominating ARM chip). Prompt is so beautiful we have decided at SkilStak to drop our long-time Solarized theme preference, (which makes command-line programming more entertaining for particularly young programmers), and replace with the equally beautiful (and less flawed) Panic Pallette. Thank you Panic. You are my latest addition to favorite companies to watch.
Review by robmuh on Prompt 2.