In addition to a running as an ASP.NET Web App, Gistlyn is also available as a self-hosting Winforms Desktop or cross-platform OSX/Linux/Windows Console App - packaged using the tooling in ServiceStack's React Desktop Apps VS.NET Template.
Running Gistlyn on your Desktop utilizes the full resources of your CPU for faster build and run times and as C# Gists are run locally they'll also be able to access your RDBMS and other Networked Servers and Services available from your local Intranet.
To run on Windows, download the Winforms App:
Gistlyn Setup.exe (43.4MB)
.NET 4.6 Framework required
Download the .NET Console App:
Gistlyn-console.zip (6.06MB)
Gistlyn-console.zip is a headless Console Application that can run on Windows, OSX and Linux platforms with .NET or Mono installed. Instead of being embedded inside a Native UI Desktop App, the Console Application starts a self-hosting HTTP server which it opens using your Operating System's default browser.
After unzipping Gistlyn-console.zip right-click on Gistlyn-osx.command and Open With Terminal.app
in the context menu:
Then click Open in the OSX Warning dialog which will run Gistlyn's web server in a Console App and open it in your default browser. After Gistlyn has run once, you can double-click Gistlyn-osx.command to run it again in future.
See the instructions for Installing Mono on Linux. If installing via apt-get, it needs the mono-complete package to run.