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.
