I have been using ActiveState's Komodo product for two years now, first on the Windows platform, and then on the Linux platform. It's a great IDE for Perl and PHP development -- proper syntax highlighting, a great RegEx toolkit, and debugging capability above and beyond what command line perl can give you. Not to say it doesn't have its faults -- it's based on Mozilla, so a CPU and memory pig, and certainly has a few issues once in a while. Nevertheless, it's a great tool, one that I can't do without anymore, and makes me develop on my Linux box more than I do on my PowerBook.
Well, until now.
ActiveState has finally unveiled Komodo 3.x Alpha 1, their first release of the OS X port of Komodo. It's slow, has some bugs, and the text handling has some issues yet. It dies occasionally. But it's a first step, and I'm happy that they're doing this. I'm hoping for a quick move to alpha 2, and I will have cash in hand for when it finally arrives for the platform.
Bad ass.
Hello Nick,
Thanks for blogging about our alpha. ActiveState will launch the beta in October for testing. If you have the chance can you drop me an email? I'd like to know more of your thoughts on Komodo.
Thanks again,
Kerry