Re: Komodo 5.1 versus the others.

I'm really surprised that some Monks who've posted in this thread put up with their code-creation-tool of choice crashing, and presumably, losing their work. It's not something I would put up with, no matter how many brilliant features the tool offers.

I'm genuinely surprised that there's any Monks that thinks differently.

Still, you live and learn :-)

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Re^2: Komodo 5.1 versus the others. by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 15, 2009 at 07:03 UTC
I don't know which software you may be referring to, but Komodo at least saves files before launching the debugger. Although Komodo had a propensity (now resolved) to lock up or crash during debugging I've never lost any work as a result, just a little time and nothing like as much time as the debugger has saved. True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re^3: Komodo 5.1 versus the others. by Anonymous Monk on Sep 15, 2009 at 20:25 UTC
I just decided to try a trial version of Komodo yesterday. It crashes pretty consistently (every couple of hours), and regularly locks up for periods of 30 seconds or more. It even makes the WinXP system unstable long after it's finished crashing, believe it or not. As much as I want to on the fly error checking and intellitype type features I'm not willing to put up with the instability of it. Back to Notepad++. =/	[reply]
Re^2: Komodo 5.1 versus the others. by Steve_BZ (Chaplain) on Aug 18, 2009 at 01:08 UTC
Yes I agree with that, but the crashes I was referring to were crashes of my application being developed. Usually I get a crash and it says "You haven't declared $nnnn" or something clever like that. However, sometimes it's just so horrified at something I've done, it goes mute. Then I have to start putting in print statements and stuff. However another nice feature is, even if you haven't saved your latest change with a new file name, you can control-z through all the work you done since you started the application to the last working version. If you put your PC on standby overnight, you can save the current version and then ctrl-z through several days of work to find the change that threw it. I've never lost any work as a result of it's foibles. Regards.	[reply]