Alexei@Nitobi

Ok, I know there are lots of web development tools out there… even good general ones like IntelliJ (Commercial), JSEclipse (Commercial), Dreamweaver (a bit dated – technology wise), Visual Studio (great, but commercial, and doesn’t support a lot of non-ms stuff, strictly speaking), Netbeans (for Java).. but I was still waiting for a good web open source, community supported IDE for developing Ajax and general web stuff..

Now I think we might have it! Enter, Aptana.

Just in case you’re wondering.. I have no ties to the folks at Aptana.. have never spoken to them (to my knowledge).. so this is basically unsolicited feedback.

Aptana is a web IDE based on Eclipse. It has code-assist support for Dojo, Javascript, CSS, HTML, etc etc. It validates your code and alerts you to problems, it allows for workspace management. It does code beautification and formatting. It’s extensible. It’s cross platform! Its open source.

I especially like how it shows browser support in the code-assist view for HTML and JS.

If you’re at all interested in checking our a new IDE.. look at aptana. I’d like to see this project get some community support.

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