BearfruitAptana "acquires" pydev
This seemed shocking at first because I think of pydev as being an open source application and how can a company “acquire” an open source application? I realized that pydev is more because of the “pydev extensions” commercial plugin. Either way, this is probably good news.
Aptana acquired RadRails a bit ago and incorporated it, making it a very feature complete Ruby on Rails development tool. Maybe now that the pydev developer is working with a team of people with similar interests Django will get the same treatment. I’d love to have a dev environment where you debug your django code right there.
Sometime recently Aptana also gained PHP support however it looks like there’s no debugging, making it inferior in at least this regard to NetBeans 6.5. I don’t think this is bad news for Django since it, unlike PHP, has a built in web server. Debugging PHP has traditionally been a trying experience and I’ve never seen it work as nicely as, for example, debugging a java web application.
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Aptana PHP
A correction.
The upcoming PHP plug-in beta has some powerful debug capabilities.
Debug sessions can be initiated against Zend’s debugger or XDebug debugger, locally and remotely.
So check it out: http://beta.aptana.com/php/php/3.2/
-Shalom
Excellent news!
Thanks for the correction Shalom, I’d already looked forward to trying Aptana with the Python plugin so now I have another reason to look forward to trying it. If someone at Aptana reads this, you should strongly consider promoting the debugging feature as its something that will seriously attract users.
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