Komodo: an IDE that’s poisonous saliva-free
Posted on January 3, 2006
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I don’t often buy software after only having had it for eight hours and using it for less than two, but this is Komodo, a full-on IDE for all your interpretted language development. I think it’s written in Python which might explain why it feels a little pokey on my 867 MHz G4 (a suspicion only founded upon the presence of the Python framework inside the Komodo bundle) but despite that, I’m loving it. (Tonight I’ll see how it runs under Windows and Linux).
Thus far I’ve only used it to write Javascript, a task that used to be relegated, trusted even, to BBEdit, and it’s been a thoroughly satisfying experience. Syntax colouring, syntax checking, an object browser, regular expresion constructor, and my favourite so far: the ability to preview a page by automatically previewing the page that calls it instead!
Confused? Think of it this way: your HTML page includes a reference to a Javascript file. You make a change in the Javascript file that you want to test. You could switch to the HTML page and preview that or… tell Komodo to always preview your Javascript file by using your HTML file and ta-da, it’s done. I love that.
Of course you’ve already got BBEdit, or Dreamweaver, or Notepad2 (you poor bastard) and yay for you, me too. Komodo is the first IDE I’ve seen that might very well supplant those for me. And the thought of one IDE on all three platforms…. geek Nirvana baby.
So far it’s the best $30 I’ve spent in the last 24 hours.
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