Just Programmer

I tried Netbeans 6.5, Komodo 5.0.1, and Aptana 1.2 today and I am still not 100% sure.
I downloaded Netbeans 6.5 and decided quickly this was not what I was looking for. Netbeans improved a lot, but it is not yet as featured as Aptana or Komodo. However Netbeans natively support my version control of choice Mercurial.

After fighting with Aptana and Komodo (for setting up PHP debugging and Mercurial), I think I will settle with Komodo and its 21 days trial for the moment. But I love Aptana features. Its Javascript debugging and features are state of the art. What decided me is PHP debugging. For the moment PHP debugging in Aptana is broken.

I am currently finishing a Drupal website and I need to implement some advanced stuff in it. In the other hand, I am also starting another PHP project that is going to be huge.

In either cases I need to do a lot more server side coding and for speed, quality and efficiency I can’t miss a good editor with a debugger.

In my case I would prefer an editor working on both Mac and Windows. Since I am more into Open Source tools and libraries, the list I came up with here doesn’t include much commercial options. It certainly doesn’t cover all existing free IDEs, but some good editors don’t come up with the required debugger.