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Textastic offers syntax highlighting for many languages including C, but it doesn't include compilers or interpreters due to restrictions of iOS.


Also, .exe are Windows-only anyway, so it wouldn't be possible to run them on iOS even if Apple allowed this.


Thanks. Another customer reported this problem once, but so far it didn't occur on my own device. If you find a way to reproduce the issue reliably, please let me know!

There is no fixed limit. It depends on the file and its complexity. Normal source code line lengths (say up to about 200 characters per line) work best. 800 kb in one line would be extremely slow.

It depends on the hardware you are using, but more recent iPads like the 3rd or 4th generation iPad should handle such a file without problems.


But, if the file has some very long lines, this could be problem. Especially, if it is a minified .js file.

This problem will be fixed in Textastic 4.3. It was a bug in the Dropbox SDK.

Yes, that's why I'm going to be able to use libgit2. See my comment above:


There is a promising library called libgit2 which can be used on iOS due to their more permissive license. Currently, it's missing essential features like SSH transport, pull and push. Those guys are working on this. When libgit2 adds these features, I can add Git support to Textastic. I considered helping to add these features to libgit2 and read a lot of the code already, but unfortunately writing a low-level C Git library is not my area of expertise.