Continuous .NET C# and F# IDE Reviews

Great App - Little Documentation

Phylter

This app is solid and worth every bit of five stars. I would like to see better documentation in the same order of Pythonista though. I think it would be absolutely perfect then.

Want to give more stars, but silence for support...

HeyAndy1st

I very much want this to be the best way of being able to play with .Net code while I am away from home or work. All the simple examples seem to work great. Finally got to loading some libraries I want to use on a regular basis, one being a geohash class. Continuous keeps throwing an exception at a line of code where none exists, the code run fine in Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio. I have posted a bug to their bug tracking software for 3 weeks and have not gotten a single response from the developer. While I understand they may be busy, at least some acknowledgement that they will be looking into it and I would actually be happy. But silence for this long is not giving me a warm and fuzzy feeling of how well this app will be supported going forward. Again, for many things it does work fine, hence the 3 stars, but for many things I need to do I need that class running (at least for the next 6 months to year) and lack of any response from support loses 2 stars.

Dang!

PapaRaven

Dropped all the iOS pieces of a shared project solution into the Continuous sandbox via iTunes, just to see what trouble I could stir up. The references to .shproj files were not picked-up. That's fine - instead I kept those where they were but created links to their files (I have done this for projects where I wanted to see all [partial class, etc.] code files listed in one project branch, so no biggy..) and that worked great! Double-plus-good for linked code files. Alas I use "#if __IOS__" blocks a fair amount, and those defines/symbols apparently didn't survive the trip, so that ended that quick experiment. If this project of mine weren't knee deep in compiler symbols I would take one more crack at Continuous after some tweaking, for this particular code... Given the complexity of compilers and IDEs and all their modern additions I had no illusions that a one-hacker-shop would get a Xamarin solution project working 100% in iOS right off the bat. And right now, with a little more code isolation, I can get typical/normal/real work done on my big iPad for larger projects done on my Mac. How cool is that?!

If you want F# on iPad, this is your answer!

Hatman70

I know the app can do C#, but I specifically wanted to write F# code on my new iPad pro (with keyboard). As an F# IDE, this app exceeds all my expectations. I can't remember the last time I wrote a review, but this app is so good that I had to. I don't know what else to say other than if you want to do F# (or C#) development on your iPad, buy this app immediately! :) In fact, if this app were available for Windows/Mac, I would buy it for those platforms as well. As an "F# newbie", the continuous compilation and display of results is invaluable. This app gets my HIGHEST recommendation!

This app makes me want a new iPad -- it's that good

atty79

I pretty much gave up on using my iPad since I got a Surface Pro 3. Everything I did on my iPad, I could pretty much do on the Surface. That being said, there's still one thing about iOS that draws me in: focus. When I use iOS, for better or worse, I feel my concerns limited to the task at hand. It holds my ADD at bay. I'm less likely to get lost multitasking. So what does this have to do with Continuous? Everything. It's an IDE that lets me program fluently while limiting my concern to ... well programming! I'm not multitasking like crazy. In a way it's the closest I think a programmer can get to sitting down with a good book and a cup of coffee -- or an IDE and a cup of Joe. And I'm using an iPhone! I love it so much I'm tempted to buy the latest iPad just for this. The bigger screen real estate can only increase the productivity possible with this app. Will it replace VS? No. Will it make programming more fun? I think so. Everything's at your fingertips, literally. Great job. Ridiculous great price. Hope for the future: I'd pay for Resharper-like feature add-ons. Also. A git add-on, like others mentioned, would be nice as well.

Incredible feat!

Easymovet

It really needs a way to connect to other storage, like Working Copy or Dropbox...

Wow!

 Tony Stark

This app is absolutely incredible.

Impressive Start

strmpnk

I really like where this is going. Having used it to write some simple F# samples, I can say it works reliably. But there are many clear shortcomings for my use cases. First is the noisy warnings and errors. I understand that some people want to turn these settings up to 11 but when you're just working on a small concept, getting giant annotations that something lacks equality comparison is not useful and leads to all sorts of unnecessary annotations for small scripts and libraries. Second, the editor ties into the system's keyword replacement system. I have and use many shortcuts to make basic typing easier as well as gaining quick access to extended symbols. This is a problem for many of my shortcuts which I've had to remove on iOS, including one that would turn -> into a unicode arrow. This is great for regular prose but is not syntactically acceptable in F#. It'd be great to have these disabled. Finally, the UI should allow hiding the sidebar so the focus can remain on the code... there are probably many things that could be tried with the UI but generally with coding I like to hide most of it. Anyway, this is definitely a great app. I like that it supports F# out of the box and will likely keep using it. Just keep in mind that it is still a bit rough in some areas. I hope to see future releases addressing these things and definitely don't regret my purchase.

What an amazing app.

AndrewCVega

I get asked all the time what app i'm using when people see me programming on my iPad on the plane (I travel a lot to/from SFO airport).

Good, but some bugs

KilgortTraut

CATransform3D matrix properties give error and doesn't work m11, m12, m34 <- this ones. Please check. Overall app is really good.

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