> Flash develop is free and great for as3; yet, Flex Builder for eclipse, with > its insanely high price tag of $249, is better if you want to include > capabilities to edit other languages like c++ or java.
Well, I've never used FlashDevelop, but if you just want to write C++ or Java or a bunch of other things, you can just download Eclipse for free too, and use both for different things. > IMHO they should have just integrated all the code editing and compilation > abilities into dreamweaver to make it a better, must have, product, or put > everything dreamweaver has into eclipse if they truly want to move > everything to eclipse. Dreamweaver and Eclipse are fundamentally different things, and I really don't see how this could happen well. For example, Dreamweaver doesn't include support for refactoring, because it's something that doesn't really make sense within an HTML editor. As for putting everything Dreamweaver has into Eclipse, check out Aptana, which is an Eclipse plugin for HTML/JS authoring. It's pretty neat. But again, HTML authoring is quite a bit different from the traditional programming that Eclipse is aimed at. > Eclipse is insanely slow, and java , even with flashdevelop's sytax checking > through java, makes my dual core 2.2 ghz CPU with 2gigs of memory, spike at > 45% for its processes and take 250 - 500 MB of memory. Java sucks ass when > it comes to speed; despite the propaganda, spread by SUN and java > developers, to the contrary. I use Eclipse on much weaker computers than that without any problem. The computer I'm using right now is a single-core CPU with 1GB RAM. There's a lot of stuff you can turn off to make it work a little faster. I've never heard any Java programmers talk about Java's speed in a positive way, unless you consider "it sucks less than it used to" as a positive statement. But frankly, speed isn't all that important in a text editor. I do admit I am looking forward to ordering a new, insanely fast computer, so that Eclipse will be more tolerable. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
