I have been using Komodo . I did not purchase the most recent version which was 4.0. The $300 price tag is a bit much for me to consider upgrading.

Komodo has some neat project stuff associated with it, but I am finding that file system tools that do a better job of dealing with certain issues than relying on the built-in editor.

An example with Komodo was accessing remote files via FTP, the functionality was there but very flaky, the network I was working on would temporarily lose the connection all the time and then I would have to restart the editor to be able to access the file again.

I have another server which did not have FTP, only SSH and Komodo did not support accessing files via SSH. Luckily someone pointed out sshfs. I mapped a virtual directory to my remote system via SSH. I did not need wait for Komodo to get that extra 'enhancement' in order to work.

Another thing about the Perl community is that we are a fairly cheap bunch. I may not speak for everyone but there are not a lot of development tools directly geared towards Perl, but in general, the are expensive. My co-worker shelled out $60 for RegEx Buddy, I thought, 'That is a lot of money just to do one thing'. I think Komodo costs a lot at $300 and I LIKE that editor.

Another point I would like to make is that alot of programmers that get proficient at VIM can be pretty flexible. VIM is installed on most every *NIX system. It would seem strange to purchase a proprietary tool that is tied to one box when you may need to work on several different systems.

In reply to Re: Perl Development Environment - Revisited by Herkum
in thread Perl Development Environment - Revisited by mercutio_viz

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