ActiveState releases Komodo for GNU/Linux

TorinEdge writes "ActiveState has finally released (as in out of Beta) their Komodo IDE for the GNU/Linux platform! Komodo is an integrated dev environment for open source languages. It provides colour-coded editing (and "code-folding" for collapsing sections of code), debugging etc... It's optimized for Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, and XSLT. Includes the RxToolkit for testing/checking your regular expressions; a godsend. Get it while it's hot!"

Comments

Eclipse?

[variable]

Most of these languages are also supported (or in the process of being supported) in Eclipse. Which is open-source and cross platform and easy to extend.

Re:Eclipse?

[variable]

You are right, nothing that you download with Eclipse nor part of the org.eclipse classes. However, there are many projects on the go adding in language support for other languages like C#, Ruby, Eiffel, etc.

The C/C++ is actually quite an active project with many companies (QNX, Rational, RedHat) participating to make a top-tier C/C++ IDE environment.

Re:pricing

[ilofwyr]

Actually, that pricing/licensing description is quite incorrect. The correct wording (copied directly from the site) is:

2.0 Professional Edition $295
For commercial usage. Includes Source Code Control Integration, Visual Package Manager, and ActiveState GUI Builder

2.0 Personal Edition $29.95
For non-commercial and educational usage only.

Anonymous Coward here clearly has a nack for fiction.

Re:Why oh why

[GusherJizmac]

Can't be done. If you're using a binary version of Editor X, then you're not integrated with it. At best, you're using system() calls to fire off an instance of the editor for each source file in the project, which is not the same thing at all.
Not true. Not sure about emacs, but vim can be run in client/server mode, and you can issue commands to a running instance to basically do anything in the editor you want. A rudimentary version of this is already possible in Visual Studio.

Visual Studio is passable, only because the editor is fairly configurable and it has decent integrated help. I've used Project Builder for WebObjects and on Mac OS X and it is horrible, IMO. It has a very counterintuitive interface, poorly configurable editor, it's slow as death (despite the fact that it's been in existence for many years), and the GUI builder's drag&drop/wiring thing is very difficult to use, compared to what else is out there. I feel sorry for anyone using it that doesn't have a Dual 1Ghz G4 and 1Gig of memory.

A Review of Komodo 2.0 by Simon Cozens

[alfaiomega]

There's a Review of Komodo 2.0 (printer/human friendly version) by Simon Cozens on Perl.com from October 09, 2002:

"Every time I get a new copy of ActiveState's Komodo IDE, I do a review that invariably ends "this would be the perfect IDE for me if I were the sort of person who used IDEs". And every time I get the next release, I get closer to being persuaded I should be using IDEs. With Komodo 2.0, ActiveState is getting very, very close to persuading me - but it's not there yet. Let's see what it got right and got wrong this time. (...)"

Read the whole thing, it's more objective than the ActiveState's review. I personally don't use IDEs at all, like Simon Cozens, and I find his review much more interesting from my point of view. If I am to ever start using IDEs I have to know not if it's good for an IDE, but if it's good for people who prefered using Emacs/vi so far.