Komodo X released – new version of Komodo IDE (opens in new tab)

I bought Komodo 9 fairly recently, soon enough that they gave me a free license to 10. My situation is a little unique though:

- 99% of my development is done through a remote connection, almost always SFTP, as opposed to local

- Most of it is PHP, with some Node and other general web dev

- I had previously been using Gedit and felt like trying an IDE as I do every so often

Komodo got a number of things right:

- It works on Linux with no problems that I've noticed

- It's not Java-based, so there's no massive memory usage or random slowdown due to garbage collection

- Excellent PHP and JavaScript support with parameter autocorrelation

- Good enough remote development support (many other IDEs are lacking here)

- Xdebug support (and supports other languages for step through debugging)

- Fairly cheap as IDEs go, at $147 for a personal license

Might be worth the trial if you're looking for something new.

> I want a Python IDE I use PyCharm, which I bought a license for.

I am 100% on-board with giving JetBrains money, because their projects are amazing, however, I wanted to remind folks that PyCharm community edition is very, very powerful and not only free but also open source under an Apache license. I build it from master every morning and consider that process quite easy if the user is familiar with ant-based build systems.

It is madness to edit Python in vi when such a fantastic tool exists, is free/libre and also even offers vi-esque keybindings.

Im a former Komodo Edit (the free version of Komodo IDE) user before finally switching to JetBrain products. 3 things that come to mind:

* Komodo is built on top of Mozilla app framework. Its lighter in terms of startup time and memory footprint than java based IDE.

* Its search feature is so good that I sometimes use it to find files in my computer.

* Komodo IDE is rather expensive which stopped me from upgrading. Though I think they lowered their prices lately.

A long time ago (around 2006) I started using Komodo. I started off with the "Edit" version and quickly upgraded to the full IDE. I loved it. As someone else mentioned, there's nothing better really for remote dev work. The editor works nicely on Win/OS X/Linux and presents roughly the same behavior on all. For Win it's extremely nice, as it presents an ease of use for remote development that I'd only ever gotten within Linux using ssh. You can edit locally over sftp/ftp/etc. and save just as easily as if you were logged into the remote terminal directly. There are a huge number of features that are useful for Python/Perl (like regular expression checkers) that visually show what you've screwed up within your regex. If you've ever tried to write a regex for something that is especially complex, you'll know what I'm talking about, this is quite a nice feature (perhaps duplicated by some open source tools). Komodo also provides syntax highlighting for quite a few other languages (although,I found it lacked HDL support at the time which I would have liked). It's not just for Python/Perl/Tcl, provides support for C/C++/Java as well (at least it used to, haven't tried in a little over a year). If you're looking for an IDE, I highly recommend this one. It is as simple in appearance as a text editor+++, but in reality is is quite a bit more. It's probably one of the best cross platform editors that I've tried, and I've tried quite a few. Honestly, I use vim almost exclusively these days. If I ever had to go back to developing on a Windows machine, or developing for Python/Perl exclusively I'd definitely consider going back to Komodo more often....

Back in the distant past, when we prefixed our variables with dollar signs and goshdarn liked it, one of Komodo's selling point was its support for some of the less supported languages -- the parent company was mainly known for supplying the most widely used Windows distributions of Perl and Tcl (ActivePerl and -Tcl).

The free versioon, Komodo Edit, never was all that interesting compared to "proper" IDEs. It was more lightweight than Eclipse and more "mainstream" than vi/emacs, so I've seen it used occasionally on Linux systems. Not in recent years though, as platform editors like gedit and kate became more capable, Sublime entered the stage as a nice medium ground and systems became more capable to run the more monstrous IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ/WebStorm/etc) without a noticeable impact.

i am aslo kind of surprised by their resilience its an expensive ide 245 for commercial license, and 145 for personal

you can download komodo edit, its free, and you will get the feel of what its about

Last time I used them, which was about 3 or 4 years ago, PyCharm had okish Python code completion (i.e. amazing compared to the competition), whereas Komodo didn't really have any code completion.

Not sure about the debugger.

Komodo has remote debugging for pretty much all of its major languages.

Pleasantly surprised to see they provide msi-based installers for Windows, and not exe-based ones like all too many projects still do.

I'd think companies that provide software like this would have an interest in a) making the free version (and maybe the trial version) available in the windows store? And b) (ok, I'm somewhat biased, I just think it's soo delightful to use) a scoop.sh-package for easy install to those few that have discovered the joy that is scoop.sh. Shouldn't be too hard, could probably model on the scoop.sh package for visual studio: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/blob/master/visu... (which should probably be updated to vs2015)).

Komodo does not use any Java what so ever. The only traces of Java you could find is syntax highlighting support and in the name of JavaScript. We're not a Java IDE.

It does not have native Puppet integration at the moment. You could add your vote here: https://github.com/Komodo/KomodoEdit/issues/803