From: Jeff Wood Date: 2005-12-08T09:34:35+09:00 Subject: Re: What's your opinion? ArachnoRuby, Komodo, Eclipse/RDT, R ------=_Part_7723_17403599.1134002067717 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline uh ... as far as "he is offering the same stuff for perl, php, and python" ... that's a *WILL* offer ... Lothar is currently focused on Ruby... and hasn't released anything to support the other languages. j. On 12/7/05, Christer Nilsson wrote: > > I've tried the following on Win XP > > TextPad + IRB > My first staggering steps. Made some minor web pages in Rails. Inserted > in the code. Bad experience after working with VB.NET for > some years in Visual Studio. Realised I needed a good IDE and more Ruby > knowledge. > > RadRails 0.4.1 > I still don't know if it's debugger works or not. Not much > functionality. > > Komodo 3.5.1 > This is the one that starts the fan on my laptop. I'm writing this while > I'm waiting for it hitting my first breakpoint. 100% CPU, amazing. 197 > times slower than ArachnoRuby. It seems to be related to requiring > library code. > > ArachnoRuby 0.6.5 > Finally found the point where I don't need to search more. The debugging > speed is similar to full execution speed. So much functionality. The > debugger shows me all local variables, instance variables and self. And > this in all stack frames! Other nice features: Local backup, Diff, > Merge, Code templates, Electric braces, Code folding, Color coded syntax > etc. The only thing I'm missing is "Go to Definition". Warning: it is > completely without docs. But, I still love it! It's a perfect wrapper > for a wonderful language! This is done by one german guy in Eiffel on > Fox. And he is offering the same stuff for Perl, PHP and Python as well. > It has the BMW feeling. > > Christer Nilsson > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- "Remember. Understand. Believe. Yield! -> http://ruby-lang.org" Jeff Wood ------=_Part_7723_17403599.1134002067717--