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Komodo Beta Release

Posted by michael on from the point-'n-click dept.

arkman writes: "In this morning's e-mail ActiveState has announced the availability of the beta release of the Komodo Integrated Development environment on Windows and the technology preview of Komodo for Linux. The relevant information can be viewed at their Web site. Komodo is ActiveState's cross-platform IDE, and it supports Perl, Python and Java Script." Looks very promising; I hope it doesn't suffer from the problems that certain other Mozilla-based products do.

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  1. A nice editor for Perl by SydBarrett · · Score: 4

    Perl really doesn't NEED a IDE, but this thingy might make a good editor since I use pico/vi for editing my scripts and most of my bugs are syntax related.

    It has editable syntax coloring and checking, or as they say:

    "...a powerful "Early Warning System" that checks the syntax in Perl and Python code. Syntax errors are immediately flagged, which saves time otherwise wasted compiling. This feature even detects incorrect indentations in Python. "
    "
    Sounds downright usefull for checking the picky syntax of Python. It even has a debugger, which is always nice. It sounds alot like the Visual Studio IDE, which I kind of like despite a few bugs. A friend of mine is learning Perl, and sometimes gets tripped up with unmatched brackets,
    I guess this "block folding" feature may help.

    A future release will have a "Regular Expression Debugger", which would be very nice for Perl, since it's one of the places where new Perl users get stuck at with complex reg-exps. Hell, even Perl experts miss a \s now and then. :)