Perfect if you know what to use it for

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.

p1etz about CodeRunner 4, v2.1