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April 2007

4.0 Improves on Earlier Komodo

Reviewed by Cameron Laird

Here are the essentials:

  • You should try Komodo 4.0 for yourself;
  • You really should give Komodo Edit a trial;
  • The GUI builder in 3.5 has been removed, as well as the Solaris flavor of the executable;
  • Many of the happiest Komodo customers appear to be using only one or two of its dozen principal features: code editor, syntax checker, debugger, HTTP inspector, RE wizard, JavaScript Interactive Shell, language tutorials, DOM viewer, and so on;
  • It's a professional-grade product; and
  • It's not for everyone.

Do you expect more from a review than those few points? I do. It's a considerable challenge to summarize Komodo, though, and I want to be certain to get those across.

Unusual span

As an earlier review of Komodo 3.5 introduced it, Komodo is an integrated development environment (IDE). It's unusual in several regards: while it's proprietary (a standard license costs US $295), a single license serves whether you're developing under Linux (both libccp5 and libcpp6), Mac OS X (both PowerPC and Intel), or Windows. Also, it's an IDE not for a single language, but a whole family of

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