Comment by mrfregg

>sending key combos like ^d sounds terrible on a phone keyboard.

Terminal apps like termux supplement the phone keyboard with a pane atop it with tab,ctrl,pipe buttons. Should be usable.

>there isn't really any good IDE, or even editor out there.

Vim and others are available as packages in gnuroot, etc. A shell and editor split with tmux should work.

Still very uncomfortable programming on a phone ofcourse.