Friday, January 26, 2007

New Version of Komodo Released, available also free

Activestate has release a new version of the Kommodo IDE.
There are several editions but one of the most interesting for the open source and hobby programmers group is Kommodo Edit 4.0 (product link here).
I had the chance to be part of the beta and think it surely is one of those products that might become popular very fast.
So far i tested spe and PyDev on the "free apps" side, wingide when it comes to products that had to be bought.

I picked up Kommodo Edit today and ran a short first test to compare it against my current development platform (PyDev). I think there are good chances that people will jump on the new train.
I myself WON'T however. At least I won't get the free edition for now.

What features i find obsolete ?
-Mutlilanguage Support. I don't program in anything else aside of Python and Java. No need for Ruby, Perl and whatever else. I even see it as negative.
-Vim Emulation and Emacs Keybindings. No need, sorry.

What does Kommodo have that makes it attractive ?
-Very good code completion (compared to PyDev and spe, equal I would say to WingIDE)
-XPI Extension support to write your own plugins
-Toobox

What do I require that it doesn't have but is a MUST ?
-Debugging !!!!
Frankly I believe ANY IDE that doesn't come with debugging functionality built in is a dead cow ! And Kommodo Edit doesn't have it. I guess that's why they called it EDIT instead of IDE. They want you to get the IDE for 300 bucks !
300 bucks just to have a debugger ?
You're kidding !!

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