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Aptana is dead

3 points by antonpug ↗ HN
Aptana is a really good Eclipse-based tool for web developers. We use IBM Rational Application Developer but I was thinking of trying out Aptana Studio. After checking out their website http://www.aptana.org/news, I am a bit skeptical - their last news are from August 2012 and their last Tweets are from a year ago. Is Aptana dead? Did their entire development and management team just vanish?

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Gamblor
I use to use it but have since switched to Sublime Text 2. Aptana was purchased by http://www.appcelerator.com/ a while back and at that point I figured it was moving towards its end. However it looks like there have been bug fixes as recent as January https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/APSTUD-7638 but thats almost 6 months ago. There may be newer tasks in their jira but I just saw this on the main page.
LarryMade2
I use Aptana and enjoy it.

I get automatic updates periodically, last one was within the last couple months I think.

Tried sublime 2, I couldn't find any good highlight themes, no printing support (then again Apatan's printing is not great on linux, i usually copy/paste to gedit or something that prints decent)

I like Aptana's editor, easier highlight theme modification, catches some syntax errors, and flag files in the project tree that have issues, pop up references to functions in your project (ala PHP documentor?) and used veriable in your code, highlights open and close pairs when cursor is next to them.

I'd say try it out, only takes up space in your home folder, and if you don't like it you can just delete it.

logn
I use Aptana too. Yes, I've seen updates from them. It's the best Javascript IDE I've found, but that's not saying much. I guess JS is just too hard for IDEs to autocomplete all the time. Aside from that, Aptana does a nice job on things like syntax coloring and formatting. I used to be nutty about finding a good JS IDE but then I realized that Java IDEs became so good simply because Java was so hard to write (without stupid syntax errors and climbing through enormous and complicated frameworks like Spring).
onlyup
Why would you make a topic making a statement as the title and then use the same statement as a question in the actual post??