Interestingly after 3 years of VI/VIM I am trying to find an IDE.
The main contenders are WingWare Personal and Komodo 4.
Jonathan Ellis feels that Komodo 4 is the clear winner. Here are my views so far after a couple of days testing
- UI - Komodo 4 is a bit slicker and WingWare runs on OSX only as an X11 application. Actually this is not such a big drawback as you may think as the OSX X11 server is pretty well done so that WingWare almost looks native
- Komodo 4 wins the code completion since i can see the argument parameters
- I like the WingWare shell and the fact that you can select text to run in the shell
- Komodo Edit has no debugger while WingWare Personal has a pretty good debugger
- Costs - I know i've got to get a commercial version of the tool i choose. This is especially true for WingWare as the EULA prohibits use for profit. WingWare is cheaper. ($179 vs $245)
- I'm not so sure how well WingWare supports SVN. Kmodo 4 claims it does
As for MARSEdit OK but the spellchecker is a bit flakey. At least i was able to connect to my blog. I could not do this with Ecto!!!
Ok i've actually had to post this using the web control pannel. The MarsEdit forums are blaming blogger.
I think i'll stick with the web control pannel
