CodeRunner 4 App Reviews

I use it since years. Really useful when I want to test algorithm on different language. Really efficient and easy to use.

I thought it would be a useful tool. But I found this app always sort paths in $PATH in a wrong way. Completely unusable and no response from support channel.

I started using CodeRunner 1 a few years ago during my studies and it has been a wonderful app. This won’t replace a full-blown IDE, but its simplicity and quickness are wonderful. You should get CodeRunner 2 if you are…: …learning to program, because it requires no setup like most IDEs do. You can easily & quickly play around and enjoy your journey into programming languages. …teaching peope how to programm. No UI Clutter, no bulky interfaces. Just you and your code. …a developer. Developing algorithms and playing around with code in a separate environment is very useful. And for me Version 2 is an improvement in any way: - break points are a game changer - improved UI and autocompletion - NO MORE TROUBLE with SANDBOXING. The transition between the AppStore purchase and the downloadable version was painless and silky smooth. Thank you! <3

CodeRunner is a hybrid approach between a full IDE and a basic text editor. Its a small, light weight, clutter free app and yet it packs tons of features under its hood. It has not only syntax highlighting for pretty much all major languages, but also supports code completion for most of them. if that werent enough it also allows you to easily run and debug programs. Other tools like sublime text, atom or vscode are heading in a similar direction. What these three alternatives have in common are: Plugins. CodeRunner does not support something like this. This is a problem if you really want to set up your software to work with on larger projects. CodeRunner doesnt offer the flexibility to do just that. And yet I believe theres a huge opportunity for CodeRunner. Its absolutely perfect for projects that require between 5 seconds and 5 days of work. If youre a full time Python developer CodeRunner probably wont be the editor that you do your Python coding in. But it just might be the application for every other side project you might have. Its just super easy to use. Open your project no matter what its written in and run it, debug it, test it, change a few lines and fix it. Done. There is absolutely nothing to setup. It just works out of the box with pretty much all programming languages. I also want to recommend CodeRunner to computer science students. If you have multiple assigments in different programming languages CodeRunner is a huge time saver. You probably dont want a full IDE for all your weekly projects, but you also dont want to miss out features like running, debugging and code completion. The other 3 apps i mentioned arent really great either. Theres just too much of an overhead for setting up Atom or VSCode with all the plugins and settings you need. CodeRunner is nothing like that. Again, it just works. I read another review recommending this programm for teaching classes. Totally! Because there is no setup time to get everything running. Get CodeRunner if you have these side project that take a couple of days of your time. You’ll be amazed how fast you can get coding with it.

It’s refreshing to have a text editor that’s ALSO an IDE… but while CodeRunner 2 has plenty of helpful code completion, there isn’t much in the way of code validation that I’ve come to expect from other editors. The app is Good… but not yet Great. Add options to run code through corresponding language LINTERS, or even continually run code through the linter, and I’m happy to endorse this general-purpose editor to any of my development community members.

This tool is indespensible for development. I’m a long time user of version 1, and version 2 is a huge improvement.

The first version of Code Runner was an essential app for quickly writing and testing code snippets, but version 2 takes the app to a whole new level. It turns Code Runner into a top-notch, lightning-fast IDE. So many thoughtful touches make it a delight to use. For example, create a new HTML document and the app initializes it with a boilerplate HTML5 template (which you can replace with XHTML or HTML4 if that’s what you need). “Run” an HTML snippet and it shows a browser preview with live updating. The app supports file browsing with a sidebar, multiple and custom themes, a myriad of languages, awesome code completion (including jQuery as well as standard JavaScript) with documentation! It’s hard to imagine a developer that wouldn’t be delighted with this app.

For years Coderunner has been my secret weapon when developing and testing scripts generally, and php scripts specifically. With the latest updates, this app has become a truly fully-fledged, light-duty editor that has become my main editor for coding. The improved color-coding, brace matching (a feature no one writing most c based languages can do without), and completion, amongst other useful additions, coupled with the ability for me to test scripts in-situ quickly and easily, has compelled me to move coderunner 2 to first in my editor lineup. Most editors get in my way, or have some kind of glaring omission (brace matching being the most common) that limits their usefulness. So far, Im rocking this one! Simple, effective, with the tools I need to do the job.

For a long time now, I have been looking for a nice code editor. I mostly do python, and from my perspective this app is great. Good code completion, nice UI, everything I would ever want. And if I need to use another language, well there are so many supported that I will use it for a long time. The Command + R and Command + . are great, because that is the same as Xcode, and using 2 IDE’s can be confusing if there are different shortcuts. In all, this isn’t an Xcode replacement, but for other languages, this is a must have.

I owned the original version and now bought the new version. CodeRunner says it runs swift but it does not. After verifying xcode tools setup, I tried the default setup then changed to the method on the coderunner web site and tried various alternatives found on the web. I’ll have to use playground.

I have been searching for a program that could compile C# and i have finally found it!! thank you!!

I basically can’t write anything in python 3, everytime I try to run it i get an error saying something about how i need to buy this app from the website because appstore version isn’t capable. I feel like i wasted my money since i can’t even write simple programs with it. I would not recommend.

Judging by the description, this is exactly the kind of program I want. Unfortunately, it hardly works. It refuses to except my specific Python executable, despite setting it up properly in the language settings. It always uses its internal Python, which doesn’t have my libraries. It has an option for invoking the bash_profile, but it doesn’t work. None of the variables, aliases, etc. that I have in my bash_profile are visible to Coderunner (tried running a simple bash script within it to echo variables). Even if these things did work, Coderunner freezes about every fourth time I click “Run.” I must force quit to get out of it and of course, I lose all my work. Finally, support is non-existent. I emailed the developer a week ago, no response; their “support” page has two FAQs; and despite being #1 in the app store developer category, Googling for help comes up with a scant few stack overflow responses on issues unrelated to the numerous ones I have. Great vision, poorly executed. I’ll come back when it works as intended. And I really want to.

This is a great app however it keeps crashing on me. At first is was fine, but now I can’t even open the app.

So far I have not experienced any issues with this. It is the perfect tool for HTML, CSS, and Javascript development on the Mac. The realtime viewing of your coding is awesome. My only issue is that the preview sometimes fouls up, meaning that if you adjust a stylesheet file and then click on a link in the preview that goes to another html page in your folder the stylesheet may or may not update for the page, maybe a caching issue? When this happens I just close the app and open it back up. It loads quick so no major issue there. It would be nice if it had the option to open up to the tabs last opened in previous sessions and if folders would open when highlighted and the space bar is pressed (a common feature in other IDEs). To sum it up….if you are a web designer or coder, this is, in my humble opinion, the best app in the app store.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better than Xcode. Themes are awesome, layout is crispy clean, and it’s fast. I would like to see support for running the terminal in a new window, but other than that it’s as close to perfect as possible. Worth every dollar and more.

I’ve been using NetBeans for web development and this is a much better solution. My machine doesn’t overheat or run super slow with CodeRunner 2 and the auto complete is fantastic. The only thing it’s missing is FTP/SFTP support, without that the only benefit CodeRunner 2 has over TextWrangler is that it has the code completion, but for a senior level developer code completion is trivial compared to the file transfer support. Add that and this will be my primary web development tool in a heartbeat! Very nice to finally have access to development tool for C#, Lua, Java etc. Can’t wait to play with those!