“The newly formed Komodo group’s mandate was to provide deep support for various programming languages including Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, XSLT, as well as web standards like XML, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. It seemed only natural to support programming on both the Windows and Linux platforms.” Read the article at LinuxPlanet.
Komodo Breathes New Fire into IDE
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But the article’s more of an overview/interview than it is a review of the IDE itself.
Whereas I was looking for some specifics about how it handles a particular language, or how intuitive the IDE itself is, the article’s basically an interview w/the developer about how they got where they are today, where Komodo’s going, and what the design methadology is/was.
Oh well… Still made me want to investigate Komodo further, but mainly because I couldn’t determine its abilities from the article.
Is the RX toolkit compatible with Perl 5.8? Last I checked, it wasn’t
That being the case, is there any other ‘RX toolkit-like’ app for Win32? Only one I’ve seen is VisualRegExp, but it’s a TK app and doesn’t appear to support the paste function.
Yes, the article is not particularly informative and does not do justice to Komodo, which is a wonderful IDE for scripting languages. I have been using it for Perl programming for more than a year now. Currently I am using 2.5beta. If you program in Perl, python or Tcl, give it a try – I have found that the real-time syntax checking is saving me hours each week, and there are plenty of other nice features, too.
OK, I see that it supports a handful of well known programming/scripting languages (Perl, PHP, Python, tcl) and web standards (XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS). Shouldn’t XSLT be on the ‘web standard list rather than the scripting list? This may be a minor issue, but XSLT is not really a programming language. These little factual errors detract from story.
Tecnically speaking, XSLT is a functional programming language.
I just downloaded the trial, and I have say that I’m that impressed. The debugging is very, very cool. But: It seems slow to me. Very slow. I was hoping that I could find a good cross-platform IDE. Anyone know if the $29.95 personal edition entitles me to install in on both platforms, or would I need to by two licences?
Don’t know the exact details of the Personal Edition, but the entitlement for Komodo that comes with ASPN Perl allows you to run it on both platforms. Basically, you go to your ASPN ‘entitlements’ page and download the keys for your platform and execute them.
Kick the Donkey,
Any Komodo license entitles you to use it on both Windows and Linux. The license email that you got includes links to both a Linux and a Windows license key.
Regarding the slowness issue. Please try out Komodo 2.5 (in beta right now), we have made a number of performance improvements.
http://www.activestate.com/Komodo/Beta
Cheers,
Trent
Komodo Developer