Siu Lun

So Eclipse 3.5 is now out, I’m still downloading it at the moment. However my main focus with this post is on Aptana. That’s my preferred choice to develop web apps in. It just has that one extra step in terms of support during development that makes it better than the phpeclipse and eclipse php projects. I guess most notably being the auto completion for not just php but html and javascript.

But now that 3.5 is out, there is no sign on Aptana to announce support for it. In fact, they’ve been touting support for 3.4 as the basis for the past 6 months but little progress has been made since.

I like Aptana’s development tool, and I have actually paid for the pro version. However, it really seems to me they’ve really shifted their attention to their own ‘cloud’ hosting offering and away from Aptana itself. I can understand that from the revenue perspective, but to be honest, I do not see their cloud offering to be of any use as it is not particularly competitive if you compare it to the existing solutions.

I sincerely hope that Aptana will not forget what made them rise in the first place and will not forget those customers who have paid for Aptana. I suppose what I’m saying is, the least I would expect from Aptana is that they ought to be ‘on-the-ball’ with Eclipse releases to ensure they can support the latest version.

I don’t know, perhaps they got the same mentality as typical linux nerds who believe new versions are always worst when they first come out than the previous and most people would play it safe and use older versions.

I’ve always used the latest of whatever I can get my hands on.